MarkLogic Server 11.0 Product Documentation

sc:schema

sc:schema(
   [$arg as item()]
) as schema-root()?

Summary

Returns the root schema of the item. The context item is used if no argument is given.

• If the item is a document node, the result is the schema of its root element.
• If the item is an element node, the result is the schema of its element declaration.
• If the item is an attribute node, the result is the schema of its attribute declaration.
• If the item is a schema component, the result is the containing schema.
• If the item is an atomic value, the result is the schema containing the type of that atomic value.
• In other cases, the result is the empty sequence.

Example

declare namespace th="http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus";
xdmp:describe(
<th:thesaurus>
  <th:entry><th:term>dog</th:term>
     <th:synonym><th:term>canine</th:term></th:synonym>
  </th:entry>
</th:thesaurus>//th:entry/sc:schema()!sc:component-property("schema-location")
)
  =>
"thesaurus.xsd"