[xquery-talk] Dynamic context default values

[Frans Englich]

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 15:53, Martin Probst wrote:
> > I neither see that implementations must be able to set the
> > collection to
> > certain nodes, so the XQTS is a bit over-demanding here, in my
> > opinion.
> >
> > However, this is actually the first time I've seen an implementor
> > consider
> > this a problem.
>
> Actually X-Hive is failing several tests because it's not possible to
> run an XQuery that does not have an initial context node.

..but in that case XPDY0002 should be raised, right? Are you saying that there 
is tests that rely on a context without setting it, or that X-Hive can't 
arbitrarily set the default context which some tests requires?

> I'm not 
> sure if there is a way to spot those in the test suite, but I simply
> maintain a set of 'known failing' test cases. Works for me :-)


Cheers,

		Frans