Full-Text search, how to mark whole phrases

Hi, I have placed small document in database with enabled full-text index: <text> Text with hello world phrase. </text> The following expression: ft:mark(db:open('simple')//*[text() contains text 'hello world']) produces: <text>Text with <mark>hello</mark> <mark>world</mark> phrase.</text> Is it possible to enclose result in one element <mark>hello world</mark> ? Regards Bartosz Marciniak

Hi Bartosz,

unfortunately this is not possible, because at the stage of marking the terms, we don’t have any information if the matched terms were the result of a single or phrase search. If all of your adjacent query terms will be the result of phrase queries, you could rewrite your result with some additional XQuery code (using e.g. a transform expression [1]). Hope this helps, Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_Update#transform

In general this is not possible using XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0, and it's the single most-requested feature for a future version. Many vendors provide an extension to do "match highlighting" including BaseX: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Full-Text_Module Liam