[xquery-talk] Query Through Multiple Files

['Liam Quin']

On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:16:30AM -0500, Wei, Alice J. wrote:
>     As for the point on using the template you provided, since I use the TEI, I don't think I could use it. I did use Liam's suggestions,
> 
> for $ad in (
>        doc("1.xml"),
>        doc("2.xml"),
>        doc("3.xml"),
>        doc("4.xml"))//ad
> 
That wasn't exactly what I suggested... :-)

XQuery is not a good language in which to make random
guesses and hope things will work.

You can try,
for $doc in (
       doc("1.xml"),
       doc("2.xml"),
       doc("3.xml"),
       doc("4.xml"))
    return $doc//ad

Liam

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