Interstage Shunsaku Data Manager Application Development Guide - Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000/ Microsoft(R) Windows Server(TM) 2003 - - UNIX -

3.2 Searching with Character Strings

A search expression is used to retrieve XML documents that satisfy specified conditions from the XML documents stored in Shunsaku.

Refer to B.3 Search Expressions for more information on search expressions.

It is possible to search for XML documents by specifying conditions that apply to character strings contained in any given element node of an XML document or character strings contained in the attribute nodes of that element node. The following three methods can be used to specify the conditions that apply to the character string:

• Searching for Documents that Contain a Keyword
• Searching for Documents that Match a Search Keyword Exactly
• Performing a Size Comparison with a Search Keyword

The following examples assume that Documents A, B, and C below, exist.

In this section, it is assumed that the parameter for distinguishing between upper and lower case for alphanumeric characters in the strings that will be searched (ANKmix) is set to 1 (Do not match case sensitivity for alphanumeric characters).

Document A

<doc>
    :
  <basic date="2006/01/30" >
    <classification code="0001">Area-A</classification>
    :
  </basic>
  <detail>
    <destination area="Richmond, Melbourne" >Melbourne Office</destination>
    <purpose>Interstage Shunsaku Sales Promotion Meeting attendance</purpose>
    <train>$20.00</train>
    <taxi></taxi>
    <hotel>$85.00</hotel>
    <comment>Hotel charges were incurred due to attendance at an informal meeting</comment>
  </detail>
  <report>At the meeting, the Systems Manager of the IT Department of Company A requested 
  that a search response of 10 seconds or less be attained.</report>
</doc>

Document B

<doc>
    :
  <basic date="2006/01/31">
    <classification code="0003">Area-C</classification>
    :
  </basic>
  <detail>
    <destination area="Balmain, Darlinghurst, Bronte, Sydney">Sydney branch</destination>
    <purpose>V7.0L10 installation report</purpose>
    <train>$140.00</train>
    <taxi>$180.30</taxi>
    <hotel></hotel>
    <comment>Plan to return home directly</comment>
  </detail>
  <report>Because of the rapid installation, the client doubted that we could achieve 
  their requested search response of 18 seconds. However, we were in fact able to 
  achieve a search response of just 14 seconds.</report>
</doc>

Document C

<doc>
    :
  <basic date="2006/03/02">
    <classification code="0002">Area-B</classification>
    :
  </basic>
  <detail>
    <destination area="Clearview, Belair, Adelaide">Head office</destination>
    <purpose>Interstage regular meeting</purpose>
    <train>$24.00</train>
    <taxi>$21.00</taxi>
    <hotel></hotel>
    <comment>Sales meeting materials were verified in advance.</comment>
  </detail>
  <report>They were requested to get advance approval from the Sales 
  Coordination Department to verify the materials.</report>
</doc>

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3.2.1 Searching for Documents that Contain a Keyword

3.2.2 Searching for Documents that Match a Search Keyword Exactly

3.2.3 Performing a Size Comparison with a Search Keyword