xquery - Read documents in order

Question

We have a list of URIs and which we need to read in the sequence in which it is passed.

Example1

doc(("/doc1", "/doc2", "/doc3"))

above function should return the content of "/doc1" then "/doc2" and then "/doc3" but it is not happening.

The same thing is happening is with the below query also.

Example2

cts:search(doc(), cts:document-query((("/doc1"),("/doc2"),("/doc3"))))

What will be the solution if I want to read the documents in which sequence I pass the URIs ?

Any help is appreciated..!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66061532/read-documents-in-order

Answer 1

cts:search has its own ordering functionality, which you can trigger using functions like cts:index-order. fn:doc takes an array, and will return them in database order. Neither of them sounds like what you are trying to achieve.

I would suggest explicitly iterating over the uris, and fetching the uris one by one. You could use ! operator for this, for instance:

("/doc1", "/doc2", "/doc3") ! doc(.)

HTH!