[xquery-talk] Serializing using fn:put()

[Vyacheslav Zholudev]

Thanks, Michael and Matthias, for the replies!

Out of curiosity, what are the reasons that it's not easily doable in "pure" XQuery?

Vyacheslav


On Mar 23, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Matthias Brantner wrote:

> In Zorba, we have developed a file module for such use cases (e.g. http://www.zorba-xquery.com/doc/zorba-latest/zorba/xqdoc/xhtml/www.zorba-xquery.com_modules_file.html). This module is part of EXPath. Other processors (I know from BaseX) implement it as well.
> 
> Best
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> On Mar 22, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Vyacheslav Zholudev wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm trying to produce multiple documents from a single XQuery. I chose to use fn:put() for this purpose. (is there a better way?)
>> However, an XQuery processor (Saxon) puts an XML declaration "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>". 
>> 
>> Is there a way to avoid this? (since the result is not XML). I guess it's implementation-specific, or isn't it?
>> 
>> Thanks!!!
>> 
>> Best,
>> Vyacheslav
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Best,
Vyacheslav