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

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2012-06-08 18:35 +0000, David Lee wrote:
>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.

Maybe so, but I did discover recently that Saxon HE does not load the 
id() table when the token is not a valid xml:id value:

t:\ftemp>type david.xq
let $in := document { <input xml:id="abc"/> }
return ( 'Result with ''abc'':',count($in/id('abc')) ),
let $in := document { <input xml:id="-ptr"/> }
return ( 'Result with ''-ptr'':',count($in/id('-ptr')) )

t:\ftemp>xquery david.xq
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>Result with 'abc': 1 Result 
with '-ptr': 0

t:\ftemp>

I hope this is helpful.

. . . . . . . . Ken


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