[xquery-talk] How to retrieve Sequence of atomic values?

[Michael Kay]

> 
> Sorry if this question is too simple, but I didn't found an 
> answer yet:
> 
> How is it possible to handle an element:
> <test>1 2 3 4</test>
> as sequence of atomic types (xs:integer) in an XQuery?
> 

If there's a schema that describes the element's type as being a sequence if
integers, then atomizing the element node (which usually happens implicitly)
will automatically yield the content in this form. For example, sum(test) in
your example will be 10.

If there's no schema then you need to do the conversion by hand, e.g. as

for $i in tokenize(test, ' ') return xs:integer($i)

Michael Kay
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