[xquery-talk] moving an element from last child to next sibling

[Michael Kay]

> Now I wonder whether something like this is feasible using xquery 3.0 
> features.  Maybe not worth the effort, given the existence of xslt, 
> but at least you could imagine defining a map of XPath to function, 
> iterating over a tree, matching patterns and calling functions...
>
I think that with maps* and higher-order functions you could do 
something quite powerful; however the resulting code might be very 
cryptic to the uninitiated.

* Sadly, maps are not in XQuery 3.0, though John Snelson has shown how 
they can be implemented using higher-order functions...

Michael Kay
Saxonica