[xquery-talk] Wrapping element conditionally

Mon Dec 16 09:01:18 PST 2013

FYI the key to understanding XQuery (and XSLT) is that you are not "printing lines" your generating element.  *full elements* with these constructs.
You cant just   printf("<html>")  then later printf("</html>")

You are constructing an entire element including the start, end and body all at once.
So you cant conditionally include or exclude half the markup.

-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at x-query.com [mailto:talk-bounces at x-query.com] On Behalf Of David Carlisle
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 11:47 AM
To: Misztur, Chris; talk at x-query.com
Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] Wrapping element conditionally

On 16/12/2013 16:28, Misztur, Chris wrote:
> How would I get the output to look like:
>
> <html><body><p/></body><html>
>
> Or just:
>
> <p/>

<html><body><p>something here</p></body></html>/
    (if($wrap) then . else body/p)

David

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