[xquery-talk] momentary recursion dyslexia

[Philippe Michiels]

This is a bug in Galax, it will be fixed in the next release.

Philippe

On Monday 28 November 2005 00:41, Howard Katz wrote:
> Thank you, David. That clarifies matters.
>
> For those interested in such things, the October, 2004 working draft was
> the first WD to specify that "the last step in a path is allowed to return
> a sequence of atomic values." Prior to that version, path expressions were
> only allowed to return (possibly empty) sequences of nodes. Since the Mark
> Logic content server is based on the earlier May, 2003 WD, its "not a node"
> error report is consistent with the earlier spec.
>
> Galax claims to be compatible with the October, 2004 WD but nevertheless
> reports that an atomic value in the leaf position is an error, which
> appears to be inconsistent with that claim.
>
> Howard
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: talk-bounces at xquery.com
>  > [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf Of David Carlisle
>  > Sent: November 27, 2005 1:50 PM
>  > To: howardk at fatdog.com
>  > Cc: talk at xquery.com
>  > Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] momentary recursion dyslexia
>  >
>  > >     <a/>/fn:name(.)
>  > >
>  > > Can someone tell me why this is problematic for these two engines?
>  > > Howard
>  >
>  > Check which draft of xquery they implement. The ability for the last
>  > step in a path to return an atomic value rather than a node
>  > was added a
>  > couple of drafts or so ago, but some implementations may
>  > still implement
>  > early drafts.
>  >
>  > David
>  >
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