如何在MarkLogic中将子元素包含为单词查询的一部分

Question

We have data in xml as follows

<person>
    <snm>Joisar</snm>
    <fnm>Manish</fnm>
    <init>Mr.</init>
</person>

Word query is as follows

<options>
    <word>
        <element ns="" name="{$constants:surname}"/>
        <element ns="" name="{$constants:foreName}"/>
        <element ns="" name="{$constants:initial}"/>
        <element ns="" name="{$constants:prefix}"/>
        <element ns="" name="{$constants:suffix}"/>
        <term-option>case-insensitive</term-option>
        <term-option>diacritic-insensitive</term-option>
        <term-option>punctuation-insensitive</term-option>
        <term-option>whitespace-insensitive</term-option>
    </word>
</options>

When we search for First Name OR Last name, it works fine & we get results

search:search($SearchWord, $SearchOption, $Start, $pageLength)

Now when user wants to search for full name ie "Joisar Manish", it does not show the results, as both are in separate elements. At least one way it should search ie Joisar Manish OR Manish Joisar

Can you please help me with how to write word query to make sure it works as expected ? or we need to go with different approach?

Answer 1

There are two basic approaches here:

1. Is to search for each part of the name separately and AND them together, logically Joisar AND Manish .
2. The way you are thinking about it, as a phrase search. Here, however, you need to do some reconfiguration of the database, because by default phrases break at element boundaries. So you want to declare these low level elements as phrase-through elements. Then you do your search to the person element. That assumes the pieces are actually adjacent.