[xquery-talk] Strong data checking on @xml:id?

David Lee dlee at calldei.com
Fri Jun 8 11:35:21 PDT 2012


I belive the issue is that of validation.
MarkLogic is a validating XQuery parser so is validating xml:id against the standard XML schemas.   "-ptr" is not a valid xml:id

Saxon HE (I presume you are using HE), otoh, is not a validating XQuery engine.



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David A. Lee
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> 
> Working within MarkLogic, I just got bitten by a server error caused by
> lexically invalid @xml:id in the input data. Boiled down, this was the
> offending query:
> 
> let $in := <input xml:id="-ptr"/>
> return element out {
>    attribute id { $in/@xml:id }
> }
> 
> MarkLogic complains: XDMP-LEXVAL: xs:ID("-ptr") -- Invalid lexical value "-ptr"
> 
> So it is obviously trying to cast '-ptr' as xs:ID and failing. But I
> notice that Saxon doesn't throw an error in this case. Either processor
> is happy if I wrap string() around $in/@xml:id.
> 
> I'm just wondering if this is an implementation-dependent matter, or
> what the specs might say about such a case.
> 
> David S.
> 
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