[xquery-talk] XQuery Update: replacing element content with a sequence of nodes

Florent Georges lists at fgeorges.org
Thu Apr 14 16:38:23 PDT 2011


Jonathan Robie wrote:

> I could imagine a future version of XQuery Update that
> supports this use case directly, e.g.

> replace content of node parent
> with (<one/><two/>)

> I'm not married to this syntax, but it's analogous to the
> existing "replace value of node".

  Yes, that's what I had in mind too.  Well, more exactly:

    replace content of node $parent with (
      <one/> ,
      <two/>
    )

but really, I don't want to revive the discussions about the comma in XQuery ;-)

  Regards,

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Florent Georges
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