[xquery-talk] Is cast as node() valid syntax?

[Michael Kay]

You can only cast to an atomic type.

If you had this syntax, what would you expect it to do?

Perhaps you were looking for "treat as"?

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

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf Of Alex
> Sent: 06 December 2004 20:21
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> Subject: [xquery-talk] Is cast as node() valid syntax?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does the following XQuery have valid syntax:
> 
> <out>{ fn:doc("input.xml")/* cast as node()* }</out>
> 
> Saxon 8.0b returns the following error:
>   XQuery syntax error on line 1 in `...("input.xml")/* cast 
> as node()`:
>     expected "<name>", found "<node-type>()"
> 
> If this is incorrect, what is the right way to cast to a node type or 
> node type sequence? Please note that cast for the above XQuery is 
> redundant, but it might be required in more complex situations.
> 
> thanks,
> Alex
> 
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