Re: Can InterMedia search for the presence or absence of a tag?

If you want intermedia to index <bold> as <bold> and not bold, then you need to add < as a STARTJOIN and > as an ENDJOIN

Ray
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> Mike,
>
> I've not attempted what you're trying to do, but have you
> considered a couple of things? If you've already done
> this, sorry for stating the obvious, but your examples below
> don't include all the details.
>
> ">" is a reserved character, used for the threshold
> comparator.
>
> If you created your XML Section Groups as the
> Auto_Section_Group type, the InterMedia docs say "Empty
> tags, processing instructions, and comments are not
> indexed."
>
> Did you create a Zone Section named publisher?
>
> Just a few thoughts as to why your queries aren't working.
>
> Jack
>
> --------------------------------
> Jack C. Applewhite
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> OCP Oracle8 DBA
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>
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> MONAGHAN,
> Mike
> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 2:50 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> of a tag?
>
>
> We're using InterMedia's XML section indexing
> (Oracle8.1.6.3), and mostly it
> works fine. However, I think it's indexing technique means
> that you:
> (i) cannot search for tags, eg contains(doc,'<bold>',1);
> (ii) cannot search for documents that have an empty tag (eg
> <bold></bold>).
> In both cases wildcard expansion doesn't work; for example:
> SQLPLUS> select doc from mytable where contains (doc, '%
> within
> publisher',0)>0;
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-29902: error in executing ODCIIndexStart() routine
> ORA-20000: interMedia Text error:
> DRG-50937: query too complex
> DRG-51030: wildcard query expansion resulted in too many
> terms
>
> Does anyone know of a way to do either (i) or (ii).
>
> Many thanks, Mike Monaghan
>
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