<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><api:function-page xml:base="/apidoc/8.0/sc.particles.xml" generated="2015-10-07T16:36:00.016766-07:00" mode="javascript" xmlns:api="http://marklogic.com/rundmc/api"><api:function-name>sc.particles</api:function-name><api:suggest>sc.particles</api:suggest><api:suggest>sc</api:suggest><api:suggest>particles</api:suggest><api:function-link mode="xquery" fullname="sc:particles">/apidoc/8.0/sc:particles.xml</api:function-link><api:function mode="javascript" name="particles" type="builtin" lib="sc" category="SchemaBuiltins" hidden="false" bucket="MarkLogic Built-In Functions" prefix="sc" namespace="http://marklogic.com/xdmp/schema-components" fullname="sc.particles"><api:summary>
  <p xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Returns the particles of the schema component, if any.
  The context item is used if no argument is given.</p>
</api:summary><api:params><api:param name="arg" type="schema-component()" optional="true"><api:param-description>
     The item whose particles are to be returned.
  </api:param-description><api:param-name>arg</api:param-name><api:param-type>schemaComponent()</api:param-type></api:param></api:params><api:return>ValueIterator</api:return><api:example class="javascript"><pre xml:space="preserve" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

xdmp.describe(xdmp.unquote(
  '&lt;th:thesaurus xmlns:th="http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus"&gt;\n\
  &lt;th:entry&gt;&lt;th:term&gt;dog&lt;/th:term&gt;\n\
     &lt;th:synonym&gt;&lt;th:term&gt;canine&lt;/th:term&gt;&lt;/th:synonym&gt;\n\
  &lt;/th:entry&gt;\n\
&lt;/th:thesaurus&gt;').next().value.root.xpath(
   "/th:thesaurus/th:entry/element()[2]/sc:type()!sc:particles()",
  {th:"http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus"}));
=&gt;
({http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus}term
&amp;{http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus}qualifiers?
&amp;{http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus}scope-notes?
&amp;{http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus}part-of-speech?)
</pre></api:example></api:function></api:function-page>