MarkLogic: cts:highlight with specific element

Question

We have xml like this

<paper>
   <title>blue</title>
   <description>red and blue</description>
   <headline>red color pen</headline>
   <elm1>
      <term>abc</term>
   </elm1>
   <elm2>
      <term>abc</term>
   <elm2>
</paper>

We want to run Marklogic query with full document where we want to highlight word "red"

used search:search to get data, then we are calling cts:highlight to highlight word "red" in xml

it works fine

Now i want to search only in specific element i.e. description, it should highlight "red" only in description element, how to implement this?

Answer 1

Either wrap your current query in cts:element-query:

cts:element-query(xs:QName('description'), cts:word-query('red'))

or use cts:element-word-query:

cts:element-word-query(xs:QName('description'),'red')