Re: [basex-talk] how to formulate an excluding xquery?

Hi Cerstin,

yes, that’s indeed possible, and even supported by the index, as long as the resulting expressions don’t get too nested. The following query should do what you are looking for:

//*[text() contains text "A" ftand ftnot 'C']

Is this possible at all? Can I also specify a query where "C" would be allowed to occur outside the sequence, like in the second node, but not inside like in the first node? Or the other way around?

This sounds tricky; while I wouldn’t say that it’s impossible, there is no XQuery Full Text syntax for such a particular case.

Christian