cts.referenceParse

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/apidoc/8.0/cts:reference-parse.xml

Creates a reference to a value lexicon by parsing its XML or JSON representation, for use as a parameter to cts:value-tuples. Since lexicons are implemented with range indexes, this function will throw an exception if the specified range index does not exist.

A reference to a range index.

reference

Node

cts.reference

cts.referenceParse(xdmp.unquote(
'  <cts:element-reference xmlns:cts="http://marklogic.com/cts">'
+'    <cts:namespace-uri>http://example.com/namespace</cts:namespace-uri>'
+'    <cts:localname>title</cts:localname>'
+' </cts:element-reference>').next().value.root
)
=>
cts.elementReference(
  fn.QName("http://example.com/namespace","title"),["type=unknown"])