A trick with cts:near-query
A reader recently emailed me a question about an old post on the MarkLogic developer’s mailing list. The goal was to run a query such that an element’s value and an attribute on that element both matched. The problem was…
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XML Data Modeling Suggestions
Before I can talk about data modeling, I need to quickly address something else. At MarkLogic, we often talk about how we can take data as-is and do great stuff with it. If we can do great stuff with data…
Wildcards in MarkLogic date queries
I have another reader question today, also from Amit. To summarize, he’s using the Search API and has set up a range constraint like so: Â <options xmlns=””> Â Â <constraint name=”date”> Â Â <range type=”xs:date” facet=”false”> Â Â Â Â Â Â <element ns=””…
Controlling Search Scores
Tonight’s post is based on a question from Amit, a reader: I am back again with a doubt. Now we know that the default algorithm used by Marklogic is “score-logtfidf” for the relevance calculation. Now in my project, this is…
Redirecting responses from the rewriter in MarkLogic
Update: I got some feedback on this post that amounted to “Wha???” Rereading it, I see that I really went into the esoteric for this one. After spending some time dealing with a very specific problem, I posted the solution,…
Directory Creation setting
The “directory creation” database setting is one of the first things I change for a new database. The default is “automatic”, but I switch it to “manual”, as I was taught by more experienced developers when I joined MarkLogic. The…
Converting CSV to XML
I just published an XQuery library to GitHub to convert lines of Comma Separated Value data to XML. That can probably be done more simply if you don’t care what the XML looks like, but I wanted to build templates so…
Priority Task Spawning in MarkLogic 5
MarkLogic has long had the ability to spawn tasks, consisting of a module, a set of variables and some options. Those tasks go into the task queue and get worked off by the configured number of threads. A new feature…
Range Indexes and Empty Elements
I’ve started a couple posts lately, only to find them more complex than expected. So to get myself back on the board, tonight you get a pretty simple one, based on an error one of my colleagues encountered recently. Suppose we…
Sneak Peak: ImageMagick in MarkLogic
Today I get to give you a sneak peak into a feature that's not yet officially present, but you'll find if you know where to look: XQuery-level integration with ImageMagick! In this post I demonstrate automatically scaling down large images for CurioVault.com.