Where Clause and XDT:Untyped Issues

[Torsten Grust]

Woops, I should have looked more closely.  $doc is bound to
atomic values, not nodes.

The observation about $ad being invariant in the loop applies,
though.  This appears ``fishy'': either all bindings of $doc
pass or none at all (you seem to observe the former).

    --Torsten

On Feb 2, 2008, at 13:41, Torsten Grust wrote:

> Hi Alice,
>
> it might very well be that
>
>  where contains($ad/head,'Baseball')
>
> should be replaced by
>
>  where contains($doc/head,'Baseball')
>
> ($ad is invariant in the loop and thus makes for a questionable
> filter criterion).  It is hard to tell, though: as Mike already
> said, you didn't post (a sketch of) your data.
>
> Cheers,
>   --Torsten
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2008, at 23:31, Wei, Alice J. wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I believe I have been passing this question through, but I think  
>> my main question about not been able to put in a where clause in my  
>> XQuery after my second let statement has been declared. In return,  
>> I receive all retrieved results is the issue.
>>
>> The code below has been modified from one of the members’  
>> inspirations.  Apparently, no matter what I do, it appears that the  
>> where clause in the $sorted_result has never been taken into the  
>> output generation. When executed the script, it gives me back  
>> everything, whether or not the word “baseball” was in the head.  
>> I have 197 distinct values in my list.
>>
>> let $ad := fn:collection("xmldb:exist://db/my")//ad
>> let $sorted_result:=
>> for $doc in distinct-values($ad)
>> where contains($ad/head,'Baseball')
>> order by $doc
>> return $doc
>> for $r at $count in $sorted_result
>> let $nodes := $ad[. = $r]
>> return
>> <ad>
>> <statistics>
>> Showing Result: {$count} / {count($sorted_result)}
>> </statistics>
>> {$nodes}
>> </ad>
>>
>> What I want here is just something simple, I want to be able to put  
>> in some form of where clause so I can eliminate more of my current  
>> result output. [...]
>
>
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