[xquery-talk] FLWOR Expression

fatma helmy fatmahelmy2000 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 31 00:17:48 PST 2005


dear all
can anyone forward me a software that generates random
xml files with certain specifications?
--- John Snelson <jsnelson at sleepycat.com> wrote:

> You can just use the XPath expression "as-is" in
> XQuery - you don't need 
> to decompose it into loops (unless thats what you
> *want* to do).
> 
> My tip, however, is to not use the "text()"
> selector. It is generally a 
> bad idea, as it almost certainly doesn't do what you
> expect it to do. 
> This FAQ entry explains more about this:
> 
>
http://dev.sleepycat.com/resources/faq_show.html?id=81
> 
> John
> 
> Elarrat, EFC wrote:
> > I tryed to convert one XPath expression that I did
> to a FLWOR 
> > expression, guess what?
> > year...I couldn't...so if anyone could help me,
> I'd appreciate that.
> >  
> > I would like to convert this xpath (it's a xpath
> expression, right?):
> > 
> > //chunklist/chunk/par/s/tok[orth/text() = "se" and
> 
> > contains(disamb/ctag/text(), "KS")]
> > 
> > to some FLWOR expression, with loops and stuff.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot,
> > 
> > Eduardo Elarrat
> > Happy XQuery Christmas
> > 
> > 
> >
>
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> -- 
> John Snelson, Berkeley DB XML Engineer
> Sleepycat Software, Inc
> http://www.sleepycat.com
> 
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> Ltd
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