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Marklogic search Grammar NEAR Logic

I am using ML search grammar abc NEAR\2 xyz. The issue is NEAR looks in both directions.. Is it possible to tell ML to look in only one direction.

Solution

  • Unfortunately, no. The Search API grammar NEAR/ is parsed into a cts:near-query, which does not have directional options: https://docs.marklogic.com/cts:near-query.

    Update: This is not documented anywhere but it may be worth a try. The Search API implementation appears to support parsing options from grammar definitions using a space delimited options attribute. Although none are provided in the default options, you could override that by defining your own grammar in your search options.

    Something like this might work:

    <search:grammar>
  <search:joiner strength="30" apply="infix" options="ordered"
     element="cts:near-query" tokenize="word">NEAR</search:joiner>
</search:grammar>