[xquery-talk] Simple (I thought) Xquery giving run-time error.

[Ihe Onwuka]

didn't want to tamper with the definition of $models as it is used
elsewhere (you are seeing a cut down version of the code), but having
removed a /* from its definition, that hasn't worked either (I get the
same result reported earlier).

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Kay <mike at saxonica.com> wrote:
>
> Your problem is that the initialization of $models goes down two levels
> below the document node, so it is bound to a sequence of Model elements, so
> when you do $models/* you are selecting the children of the Model elements,
> but there are no child elements to select. Remove a /* either from the
> definition of $models or from the expression where it is used.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>
> On 13/07/2012 15:41, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>>
>> xquery version "1.0";
>>
>>
>> declare namespace b2b ="http://www.b2b.net/plants";
>> declare namespace xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms";
>> declare namespace html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
>> declare namespace ev="http://www.w3.org/2001/xml-events";
>>
>> declare variable $configDir as xs:string :="config";
>>
>> declare variable $models as element()*
>> :=doc(concat($configDir,"/modelNames.xml"))/*/*;
>>
>> declare function local:bindModel($x,$y,$z) {$x};
>>
>> declare function local:capitalise($str)
>> {
>>      concat(upper-case(substring($str,1,1)),substring($str,2))
>> };
>>
>> declare function local:defineModelRoot($model as element())
>> {
>>     element {concat('b2b:',local:capitalise($model/text()))}
>>              {element xf:bind {attribute repeat
>> {local:getBindingFileName($model)}}}
>> };
>>
>> declare function local:getBindingFileName($model as element()) as
>> xs:string
>> {
>>     concat($model/@singular,'Bindings.xml')
>> };
>>      <switch xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms">
>>        {$models/*/<case
>>
>> id='{text()}Case'>{local:bindModel(local:defineModelRoot(.),"",xs:QName('group'))}</case>}
>>      </switch>
>
>
>
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