[xquery-talk] XQuery web APIs
Per Bothner
per at bothner.com
Tue May 16 14:38:47 PDT 2006
Martin Probst wrote:
> This looks like what eXist an MarkLogic do - does response-header(...,
> ...) actually return a value in XQuery or does it have a side effect?
It returns a value.
> And if it returns a value, how does that look? Do you use XML or rather
> have a "magic" value?
It actually is a "bare" attribute node, though it could be a magic
value.
When the response-header value is serialized it effects how the
following item(s) in the response get serialized. No immediate
nodes need to be created: The response-header function is applied
and serialized, which means we can then immediately set the
response mode, before evaluating and serializing the body.
> In my local changes I currently use external variables to pass in
> parameters from the web request, I get the list of declared external
> variables from the query, and bind each one to a request parameter if
> the namespace URI is a certain X-Hive URI and the local name matches the
> HTTP request parameter name. Writing
> declare variable $web:req external;
> seemed somewhat more natural to me than
> web:get-request-param("req")
> though the default values have some appeal.
I wish one could supply default values to 'declare variable'.
Perhaps that might be a worthwhile extension.
Another idea: $web:req(default-value-expression)
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