[xquery-talk] Division in xQuery

[Todd Ditchendorf]

/ is reserved for path expressions in XPath and XQuery.

For division, you want div or idiv

> return $blankCount div $totalCount

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_operators.asp



Todd Ditchendorf
Software Engineer
itod at apple.com



On Jun 2, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Kusunam, Srinivas wrote:

> I have this xQuery
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> let $totalCount :=  count($dffileid)
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> let $blankCount   := count($refid)
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> return $blankCount/$totalCount
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> As you have noticed I can't use the return statement like above  
> because I get this error "It is a type error if the result of a  
> step (other than the last step) in a path expression contains an  
> atomic value". It does make sense then how can I achieve this  
> division?
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> Also if I try using one of the Function Operator
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>             numeric-divide($blankCount,$totalCount) I get ‘Unknown  
> function name "numeric-divide"’ in eclipse with <oXygen> plug-in.
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> Thanks,
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> Srinivas Kusunam
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> 248-991-1044
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