MarkLogic 9 Product Documentation

sc.elementDecl

sc.elementDecl(
   [arg as Item]
) as elementDecl()?

Summary

Returns the element declaration of item, as a schema component, if any. If the item has no element declaration, the empty sequence is returned. The context item is used if no argument is given.

• If the item is a document node, the result is the element declaration of its root element.
• If the item is an element node, the result is of its element declaration.
• In other cases, the result is the empty sequence.

Example

var th = 
  fn.head(xdmp.unquote('<th:thesaurus xmlns:th="http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus">'
+'  <th:entry><th:term>dog</th:term>'
+'     <th:synonym><th:term>canine</th:term></th:synonym>'
+'  </th:entry>'
+'</th:thesaurus>')).root;
sc.elementDecl(th.xpath("//th:entry", 
                        {th: "http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus"} ));
=>
{http://marklogic.com/xdmp/thesaurus}entry