Hej Sander, Indeed the syntax you find now on our documentation page is for a newer version, then the one you are using. To work with that syntax, you would need to check-out the development brunch from the pathfinder CVS repository on sourgeforge.net. The release version of pf/tijah did not have its own namespace for search functions. So, you were right to replace tijah: by pf:tijah- in all search function calls. If you want to perform full-text queries, you would first have to create a full-text index. Unfortunately, with the release version you are using, this can only be done on MIL level, not within XQuery. (I will attach a mil script for creating an index as an example) Furthermore, if you want to specify a certain ft-index (earlier also named collection) to be used for the full-text query, you need to specify this, in a <TijahOptions collection="name"/> node, and give this node as the first parameter to your query: let $opt := <TijahOptions collection="name"/> return pf:tijah-query($opt, (), "nexi query string") And one last remark, you cannot perform attribute selections in the NEXI query string. NEXI does not work with attributes at all. best -Henning Sander Bockting wrote:

Dear all,

We are trying to do a full text search in a database, but we can use some help to get started. A small excerpt from our database is stated below:

//=== xquery>doc("ep")

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <eprintsdata xmlns="http://eprints.org/ep2/data"> <record> <field name="eprintid">629</field> <field name="keywords">Model-based on-the-fly Testing, Timed Automata, Real-Time Testing, TorX, Tools.</field> <field name="research_projects">STRESS: Systematic Testing of Real-time Software Systems</field> </record>

<record> <field name="eprintid">642</field> <field name="keywords">Compositional modelling, supervisory control</field> <field name="research_projects">HYBRIDGE: Distributed Control and Stochastic Analysis of Hybrid Systems Supporting Safety Critical Real-Time Systems Design</field> </record> </eprintsdata> //===

The PF/Tijah Getting Started page (http://dbappl.cs.utwente.nl/pftijah/Documentation/GettingStarted) mentions we can do a full text query as follows:

let $c := collection("MyCollection") for $res in tijah:query($c, "//html[about(., ir db)]") return $res/head/title

I believe this way is probably outdated, as tijah:query does not work. To suit our needs, I changed the query to the following form:

//=== let $c := collection("ep") for $res in pf:tijah-query($c,"//field[@name='research_projects'][about(., Distributed)]") return $res //===

But this results in the following error: "ERROR = !ERROR: interpret: unknown variable 'collName'" That is why I incorporated the collection name in the query, like this:

//=== for $res in pf:tijah-query(ep,"//field[@name='research_projects'][about(., Distributed)]") return $res //===

However, this also does not work, as I get the following error: "ERROR = !illegal reference to context node: at (1,29-1,30): ``.'' is unbound"

I have tried numerous of other variations, but neither of them work. Can somebody please help us with an explanation about how we can do a full text search within a certain node or point us at a more recent getting started page (if it already exists)?

Kind regards,

Sander Bockting

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module(pftijah); module(ascii_io); var coll_param := new(str,str); coll_param.insert("stemmer","snowball-english"); #coll_param.insert("tagFilter","HEADLINE,TEXT"); coll_param.insert("pf_collection","col"); #coll_param.insert("tokenizer","fast"); #coll_param.insert("fragmentSize","1000"); tj_init_collection("col",coll_param); var corpus_path := "/local/rodeh/aquaint/xml_aggr/"; var names := new(void, str).seqbase(0@0); names.append("corpus"); var seps := new(void, str).seqbase(0@0); seps.append("\n"); var types := new(void, str).seqbase(0@0); types.append("str"); var filename := corpus_path + "corpus.lst"; filename.print(); var tmp := load(names, seps, types, filename, -1); var corpus := tmp.find("corpus").seqbase(1@0); var url_corpus := [+](const corpus_path, corpus); var docs := url_corpus.reverse().join(corpus); tj_add2collection("col",docs,true);