Re: [basex-talk] retrieve a sequence of all values within an attribute index

any way to retrieve the index for a specific attribute name?

Nope, sorry. The index itself has no information on the location of the text and attribute values. You’ll have to use distinct-values: distinct-values(//periodOfReport) If the number of distinct values is smaller than MAXCATS [1], the path index will be utilized to speed up your query [2]. You can set MAXCATS to a much larger value, but this might slow down the time required for opening a database. Hope this helps Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#MAXCATS [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Indexes#Path_Index