[xquery-talk] Re: Attribute node whose parent is a document node

[Wolfgang Hoschek]

> Sorry, Im really stuck here. *who* has no parent ? The node in the  
> for statement ($town) ?
>
>

The issue can be simplified to these two cases:

let $a := <county name="Devon"/>
return $a/@name (: W3C spec says top-level attributes can't be  
serialized :)


let $a := <county name="Devon"/>
return $a       (: fine :)


(Both cases will work fine with the -wrap option).
Wolfgang.