[xquery-talk] query problem

[Michael Kay]

First, if you expect your function to return a single integer, then it's 
best to declare this:

declare function local:Match($X as xs:string*,$Y as xs:string*) as 
xs:integer { ...

That way, you might get better error messages if the implementation of 
the function is wrong.

The reason your function returns a sequence of integers is that the 
"return" clause of the FLWOR expression is executed once for each value 
of $tok, that is, once for each of the tokens in the input.

 >I just want that this function verify if some word in "String1" 
contains in "String2" so in this case it  must return 1

I think you can code the function as

if (tokenize($X) = tokenize($Y)) then 1 else 0

taking advantage of the fact that "=", given two sequences, returns true 
if any pair of items from the two sequences are equal.

If you prefer to spell it out more clearly, you could write

if (some $x in tokenize($X), $y in tokenize($Y) satisfies $x eq $y) then 
1 else 0

Any particular reason you want to return 1|0 from the function rather 
than true|false?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 20/11/2010 11:07, Mohamed kharrat wrote:
> dear all,
> i want to create a function which return 1 or 0
> i wrote this:
> declare function local:Match($X as xs:string*,$Y as xs:string*)
> {
>
>
> for $tok in tokenize($X, "\s")
> (:for $tok2 in tokenize($Y, "\s"):)
>
> return if (some $l in tokenize($Y, "\s") satisfies $l= $tok(:contains 
> ($l,$tok):)) then 1
> else 0
> };
> local:Match('Cata avion nat voiture fff' , 'avion moto voiture')
> this function return not only "1" or "0" but a sequence of  0 1 0 1 0
> how to fix that?
> i just want that this function verify if some word in "String1" 
> contains in "String2" so in this case it  must return 1
> thank you
>
>
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