MarkLogic 12 EA 1 Product Documentationtemporal:node-delete
temporal:node-delete( $temporal-collection as xs:string, $old as node(), [$temporal-doc-uri as xs:string] ) as empty-sequence()
Summary
Deletes a node from the database. On-the-fly constructed nodes cannot be deleted.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| temporal-collection | The URI for the protected temporal collection in which the document is to belong. This must have been previously created by the temporal:collection-create function. All versions of the temporal document will be associated with this temporal collection. |
| old | The node to be deleted. |
| temporal-doc-uri | The URI of the temporal document to be updated. |
Usage Notes
The third argument "temporal-doc-uri" is not required for documents inserted with MarkLogic 9.0 version of temporal:document-insert or later.Example
temporal:document-insert("tempcol","/example.xml",
<a><b>bbb</b></a>);
temporal:node-delete("tempcol",doc("/example.xml")/a/b);
doc("/example.xml")
=>
<a/>