cts:query matching elements by name whose content
represents a point contained within the given geographic box, circle, or
polygon, or equal to the given point. Points that lie
between the southern boundary and the northern boundary of a box,
travelling northwards,
and between the western boundary and the eastern boundary of the box,
travelling eastwards, will match.
Points contained within the given radius of the center point of a circle will
match, using the curved distance on the surface of the Earth.
Points contained within the given polygon will match, using great circle arcs
over a spherical model of the Earth as edges. An error may result
if the polygon is malformed in some way.
Points equal to the a given point will match, taking into account the fact
that longitudes converge at the poles.
Using the geospatial query constructors requires a valid geospatial
license key; without a valid license key, searches that include
geospatial queries will throw an exception.
Options include:
- "coordinate-system=wgs84"
- Use the WGS84 coordinate system.
- "units=miles"
- Distance (for circles) is measured in miles.
- "boundaries-included"
- Points on boxes', circles', and polygons' boundaries are counted as matching. This is the default.
- "boundaries-excluded"
- Points on boxes', circles', and polygons' boundaries are not counted as matching.
- "boundaries-latitude-excluded"
- Points on boxes' latitude boundaries are not counted as matching.
- "boundaries-longitude-excluded"
- Points on boxes' longitude boundaries are not counted as matching.
- "boundaries-south-excluded"
- Points on the boxes' southern boundaries are not counted as matching.
- "boundaries-west-excluded"
- Points on the boxes' western boundaries are not counted as matching.
- "boundaries-north-excluded"
- Points on the boxes' northern boundaries are not counted as matching.
- "boundaries-east-excluded"
- Points on the boxes' eastern boundaries are not counted as matching.
- "boundaries-circle-excluded"
- Points on circles' boundary are not counted as matching.
- "boundaries-endpoints-excluded"
- Points on linestrings' boundary (the endpoints) are not counted as matching.
- "cached"
- Cache the results of this query in the list cache.
- "uncached"
- Do not cache the results of this query in the list cache.
- "type=long-lat-point"
- Specifies the format for the point in the data as longitude first, latitude second.
- "type=point"
- Specifies the format for the point in the data as latitude first, longitude second. This is the default format.
- "score-function=function"
- Use the selected scoring function. The score function may be:
- linear
- Use a linear function of the difference between the specified query value and the matching value in the index to calculate a score for this range query.
- reciprocal
- Use a reciprocal function of the difference between the specified query value and the matching value in the index to calculate a score for this range query.
- zero
- This range query does not contribute to the score. This is the default.
- "slope-factor=number"
- Apply the given number as a scaling factor to the slope of the scoring function. The default is 1.0.
- "synonym"
- Specifies that all of the terms in the $regions parameter are considered synonyms for scoring purposes. The result is that occurances of more than one of the synonyms are scored as if there are more occurance of the same term (as opposed to having a separate term that contributes to score).
The point value is expressed in the content of the element as a pair of numbers, separated by whitespace and punctuation (excluding decimal points and sign characters).
Point values and boundary specifications of boxes are given in degrees relative to the WGS84 coordinate system. Southern latitudes and Western longitudes take negative values. Longitudes will be wrapped to the range (-180,+180) and latitudes will be clipped to the range (-90,+90).
If the northern boundary of a box is south of the southern boundary, no points will match. However, longitudes wrap around the globe, so that if the western boundary is east of the eastern boundary, then the box crosses the anti-meridian.
Special handling occurs at the poles, as all longitudes exist at latitudes +90 and -90.
If neither "cached" nor "uncached" is present, it specifies "cached".
"score-function=linear" means that values that are further away from the bounds will score higher. "score-function=reciprocal" means that values that are closer to the bounds will score higher. The functions are scaled appropriately for different types, so that in general the default slope factor will provide useful results. Using a slope factor greater than 1 gives distinct scores over a smaller range of values, and produces generally higher scores. Using a slope factor less than 1 gives distinct scores over a wider range of values, and produces generally lower scores.
// create documents with test data
declareUpdate();
xdmp.documentInsert("/point1.xml", xdmp.unquote(
' <item><point>10.5, 30.0</point></item>' )),
xdmp.documentInsert("/point2.xml", xdmp.unquote(
' <item><point>15.35, 35.34</point></item>' )),
xdmp.documentInsert("/point3.xml", xdmp.unquote(
' <item><point>5.11, 40.55</point></item>' ));
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// Now the following search:
cts.search(cts.elementGeospatialQuery(xs.QName("point"),
cts.box(10.0, 35.0, 20.0, 40.0)));
=> The /point2.xml document (because
<point>15.35, 35.34</point> matches).
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// And the following search:
cts.search(cts.elementGeospatialQuery(xs.QName("point"),
cts.box(10.0, 40.0, 20.0, 35.0)));
=> The /point1.xml document(wrapping around the Earth):
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// And the following search:
cts.search(cts.elementGeospatialQuery(xs.QName("point"),
cts.box(20.0, 35.0, 10.0, 40.0)));
=> throws an XDMP-BADBOX error (because latitudes do not wrap)