THES_TT

This procedure finds and returns all top terms of a thesaurus. A top term is defined as any term which has a narrower term but has no broader terms.

This procedure differs from TT in that TT takes in a phrase and finds the top term for that phrase, but THES_TT searches the whole thesaurus and finds all top terms.

Large Thesauri

Since this function searches the whole thesaurus, it can take some time on large thesauri. Oracle recommends that you not call this often for such thesauri. Instead, your application should call this once, store the results in a separate table, and use those stored results.

Syntax

CTX_THES.THES_TT(restab IN OUT NOCOPY EXP_TAB,
                 tname  IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'DEFAULT');

restab

Optionally, specify the name of the expansion table to store the results. This table must be of type EXP_TAB which the system defines as follows:

type exp_rec is record (
    xrel varchar2(12),
    xlevel number,
    xphrase varchar2(256)
);
type exp_tab is table of exp_rec index by binary_integer;

See Also: "CTX_THES Result Tables and Data Types" in Appendix A, "Result Tables" for more information about EXP_TAB.

tname

Specify thesaurus name. If not specified, system default thesaurus is used.

Returns

This procedure returns all top terms and stores them in restab.