[SOLVED] Marklogic search Grammar NEAR Logic

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>