[xquery-talk] Using Sum and Count

[John Snelson]

Hi Alice,

You are iterating over the nodes in $project//projection, binding each 
one in turn to $head. So your query is quite right in telling you that 
$head contains 1 item!

You probably want something like this:

count(doc("http://chausie.slis.indiana.edu:8080/exist/rest//db/resume/resume.xml")//projection)

John

Wei, Alice J. wrote:
> Hi, XQueriers:
> 
>   I have an XML here as follows:
> 
> <project>
> 
> <projection><!--More Markup--></projection>
> <projection><!--More Markup--></projection>
> <!--More markup-->
> </project>
> 
> My XQuery:
> 
> declare boundary-space preserve;
> 
> for $project in
> doc("http://chausie.slis.indiana.edu:8080/exist/rest//db/resume/resume.xml"),
> $head in $project//projection
> return
> <statistics>sum({count($head)})</statistics>
> 
> I intend to get the result of how many items in <projection>, but when I execute it, it only gives me lots and lots of <statistics>sum(1)</statistics>
> until the document is finished.
> 
> Can any expert out there help me out and tell me what is the matter with my code?
> 
> Thanks to those who can help.
> 
> Alice.
> 
> ======================================================
> Alice Wei
> MIS 2008
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University Bloomington
> ajwei at indiana.edu
> 
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