[xquery-talk] items as nodes or atomic values

[David Carlisle]

> Do I understand this correctly?

yes

> the result of the @x expression is (first) a node whose

yes but, for example, the other operand of the = in Michael's example is 
('apple', 'pear', 'orange')) 
which is a sequence of strings (which has no analogue in XPath 1, which
only has individual atomic vaues, and node sets, and no way to
constructs sets or sequences of atomic values).

It's possible (and sometimes even useful) to have XQuery programs that
use nodes at all.

David


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