[xquery-talk] QName in content

[David Lee]

Funny you should ask, I stumbled on this literally a few days ago while
implementing the QName function for xmlsh

 

http://www.xmlsh.org/FunctionQName

 

The results were not obvious but they did make sense.   I didn't dig into
the specs, but what Saxon does (and now xmlsh which uses saxon) makes sense.
When converting a QName to a string, the same thing takes place as if you
were to create an attribute or element.

If there's a prefix its used and if not no prefix is used. The URI is
unused.

So your result produces 

 

<a>local</a>

 

Eg. in xmlsh (which calls saxon's xquery)

 

$ echo <[ <a>{ QName("uri","local") }</a> ]>

<a>local</a>

 

I think this makes perfect sence *in hindsight*

 

 

 

 

 

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From: talk-bounces at x-query.com [mailto:talk-bounces at x-query.com] On Behalf
Of Daniela Florescu
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:24 PM
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Subject: [xquery-talk] QName in content

 

I am 14 years into XQuery, and this language still puzzles me.

(I guess we need the surprise factor to keep the interest alive :-)

 

What do people think the following query 

 

<a>{ QName("uri","local") }</a>

 

(a) does return according to the spec

and 

(b) should return based on your own user expectation ?

 

 

Is everybody OK with the current specification ? Any opinions ?

 

Thanks in advance, best regards

Dana

 

 

 

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