[xquery-talk] Parse error - please help!

[Michael Kay]

I don't think any useful purpose is served by declaring a default function
namespace - frankly I don't know why XQuery provides the option. If you set
this option then every call to a standard system function (e.g. name(),
concat(), etc) needs to be prefixed fn:.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at xquery.com 
> [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf Of padmapriya ayyagari
> Sent: 01 December 2004 19:15
> To: talk at xquery.com
> Subject: [xquery-talk] Parse error - please help!
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When I try to execute the following xquery:
> 
> declare default function namespace
> "http://www.w3.org/2004/10/xquery-local-functions";
> 
> declare function local:fullpath($node as node()) as xs:string
>  {
> 	 if ($node/..) then concat(name($node), '/', 
> local:fullpath($node/..))
> 	 else ""
>  };
> 
> local:fullpath(fn:document("xmark.xml")//site/people/person/em
> ailaddress)
> 
> It gives me the following error :
> 
> Exception in thread "main" galapi.GalapiException: Failure("Parsing
> Error: Parse error in XQuery string [characters 8-24:]")
> 
> Similarly for the function below:
> 
> declare default function namespace
> "http://www.w3.org/2004/10/xquery-local-functions";
> declare function local:getmypath($e as node()) as xs:string
>  {
>   concat('/', string-join(for $n in ancestor-or-self::* 
> return name($n), '/'))
> };
>  local:getmypath(fn:doc("xmark.xml")//site/people/person/emailaddress)
> Exception in thread "main" galapi.GalapiException: Failure("Parsing
> Error: Parse error in XQuery string [characters 8-24:]")
> 
> To tbe best of my knowledge, the syntax is in tune with the w3
> specifications. Could someone please point out what the error might
> be?
> 
> Thanks,
> Padmapriya
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