Hi Garrett,

It doesn't sound too far-fetched to split the search term on spaces and then use contains() to look for ANY type matches.

Problem is how to best filter the results - various options, depending on how your tree looks, which nodes and properties to search...

Will gladly look at your code and provide tips for doing this

/Chriztian

Chriztian!  Hey man.  Thanks for replying.  Here is bunch of existing (working) code -- I have bolded the areas I need to customize to allow for this inexact/flexible search:

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:variable name="contains" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('contains')"/>
<xsl:variable name="type"     select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('type')"/>
<xsl:variable name="usecase"  select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('use-case')"/>
<xsl:variable name="industry" select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('industry')"/>
<xsl:variable name="product"  select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('product')"/>
<xsl:variable name="platform"  select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('platform')"/>
<xsl:variable name="startAt">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="normalize-space(umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('start'))">
      <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:RequestQueryString('start')"/>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:text>0</xsl:text>
    </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
  
</xsl:variable>
  
<!-- build query filter based on form values -->
<xsl:variable name="filter">
  <xsl:if test="normalize-space($contains)">
    <xsl:variable name="containsString">
      <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="$contains"/>
      <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:value-of select="
        concat('[contains(@nodeName, ', $containsString, ')
        or contains(resourceDescription, ', $containsString, ')
        or contains(resourceDescriptionShort, ', $containsString, ')
        or contains(mediaType, ', $containsString, ')
        or contains(metaKeywords, ', $containsString, ')
        ]')" />
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:if test="normalize-space($type)">
    <xsl:variable name="mediaTypeString">
      <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetPreValueAsString($type)"/>
      <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:value-of select="concat('[mediaType = ', $mediaTypeString, ']')" />
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:if test="normalize-space($usecase)">
    <xsl:value-of select="concat('[resourceUseCases//nodeId = ', $usecase, ']')" />         
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:if test="normalize-space($industry)">
    <xsl:value-of select="concat('[resourceIndustries//nodeId = ', $industry, ']')" />              
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:if test="normalize-space($product)">
    <xsl:value-of select="concat('[resourceProducts//nodeId = ', $product, ']')" />         
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:if test="normalize-space($platform)">
    <xsl:variable name="platformString">
      <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:GetPreValueAsString($platform)"/>
      <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:value-of select="concat('[resourcePlatform = ', $platformString, ']')" />
  </xsl:if>
  <xsl:if test="not(normalize-space(concat($contains, $type, $usecase, $industry, $product, $platform)))">
    <xsl:text>[true()]</xsl:text>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:variable>

<!-- run filter -->
<xsl:variable name="filteredResources">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="normalize-space(concat($contains, $type, $usecase, $industry, $product, $platform))">
      <root>
        <xsl:copy-of select="ucomponents.xml:FilterNodes($currentPage, concat('
          ancestor-or-self::Home[@isDoc]//Resources[1][@isDoc]/ResourceType
          [@isDoc][not(umbracoNaviHide=1)]//*
          [@isDoc][not(umbracoNaviHide=1)]
          [(name()=&quot;LeadProtectedFile&quot; and normalize-space(resourceFile))
          or
          (name()=&quot;LeadProtectedVideo&quot; and normalize-space(embedCode))]',
          $filter))"/>
      </root>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <root>
        <xsl:copy-of select="$currentPage/ancestor-or-self::Home[@isDoc]//Resources[1]/ResourceType
          [@isDoc][not(umbracoNaviHide=1)]//*
          [@isDoc][not(umbracoNaviHide=1)]
          [(name()=&quot;LeadProtectedFile&quot; and normalize-space(resourceFile))
          or
          (name()=&quot;LeadProtectedVideo&quot; and normalize-space(embedCode))]"/>
      </root>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>  
</xsl:variable>
    
  <!-- show results -->
  <xsl:choose>
    
    <!-- no filter; show featured items and latest 4 of each media type -->
    <xsl:when test="$filter = '[true()]'">
      
      <!-- switch to default view macro -->
      <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:RenderMacroContent('&lt;?UMBRACO_MACRO macroAlias=&quot;ResourceLibraryDefaultView&quot; /&gt;', $currentPage/@id)" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
      
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      
      <!-- filter has values; show search results -->
      
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
  
</xsl:template>

Just not sure how to place any additional functions into this since I alerady have a concat() AND a contains() going on -- I had actually been trying to force lowercase on this comparison at an earlier stage of development and was unable to figure that out either.  What I need is to compare the essentially tokenized ignore-case querystring value, with each of the comparison doctype properties indicated in the code, but so far it seems to have been beyond my skill level!

Thanks again in advance, @Chriztian.

Sincerely,

Garrett

Hi Chriztian -- hope my code didn't scare you away ;) Have you had a chance to look at my problem?

Thanks again,

Garrett

Hi Garrett,

Not scared - overwhelmed maybe, but most of all on vacation :-)

Will have a look soon!

/Chriztian

Hi Chriztian -- I totally figured that out based on your usual response time :) ENJOY your time off and I'll look forward to hearnig from you when you get a chance!

//Garrett

Hi Chiztian - wondering if you have had a chance to take a look at this yet?  I'm still stuck on it.

Thanks again,

Garrett

Bumping this post again - still need help on this if anyone can hear me!

//Garrett

Hi Garrett,

I really want to help you with this, but honestly, I'd have a C# developer write an extension for this after adding the third search parameter... XSLT is not good at complex string manipulation (which is effectively what you're doing here - and that's already one step removed from the actual problem (dynamic XPath)).

Still, it's possible to do it and I'd like to help you out - but I'll probably need to take it all apart and reassemble it - feel free to email me at (my firstname) @ (my lastname) .dk with maybe some links and the complete XSLT?

We can post the final results here when finished to close the thread properly.

/Chriztian

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