[xquery-talk] context item in module variable

[Benito van der Zander]

> If you raise a bug against the test then the WG will have to make a decision on the question.

But do they even read those?

There is still no answer to my "every integer-valued xs:decimal could 
also be a xs:integer"-bug from last month...

Your answers to the mailing list are way faster

Benito

On 10/14/2013 02:19 PM, Michael Kay wrote:
> On 14 Oct 2013, at 12:43, Benito van der Zander wrote:
>
>>> XQuery 3.0 is explicit that all modules share the same initial context item:
>>>
>>> [Definition: The initial context item is a context item that an implementation can set before processing a query begins. The query body and the prolog of every module in a query share the same initial context item.]
>> I had read that before,  which is why the post is about XQuery 1...
>>
>> Then perhaps the test should have a XQuery 3 dependency?
> If you think so, then you are free to challenge the test by raising a bug report.
>> (My implementation evaluates all variables in a module only once and then shares the cached value with all
>> queries that import the module; much more logical like compile and link in traditional languages)
>>
> I don't think that was the intent of the 1.0 spec, but I agree that the spec was not clear on the point. If you raise a bug against the test then the WG will have to make a decision on the question.
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> Michael Kay
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