topic XPath Search in Alfresco Archive

XPath Search

deepusearching — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 09:54:20 GMT

Hi,How can I search with the partial file name search. I can able to search with the full file name. I am using xpath as query language. The following is my query.searchQuery = "/app:company_home/cm:mySpace//cm:*";searchQuery = "/app:company_home/cm:mySpace//*";searchQuery = "/app:company_home/cm:my

Re: XPath Search

kevinr — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 11:28:47 GMT

The XPath syntax is limited:
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Search_Documentation#Optimised_XPath_langauge

You are better off using the Lucene syntax:
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Search_Documentation#Lucene_Language

or maybe the fully-featured selectNodes() syntax (but this is much slower as it walks node hierarchies using the NodeService)

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: XPath Search

rdanner — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:39:49 GMT

The XPath syntax is limited:
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Search_Documentation#Optimised_XPath_langauge

You are better off using the Lucene syntax:
http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Search_Documentation#Lucene_Language

or maybe the fully-featured selectNodes() syntax (but this is much slower as it walks node hierarchies using the NodeService)

Thanks,

Kevin

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