[xquery-talk] What does [.] do.

[Ihe Onwuka]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Michael Kay <mike at saxonica.com> wrote:
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> I think the only case I've used in anger is probably count(tokenize($x, ' ')[.]) which eliminates the zero-length tokens that can arise at the start and/or end of the sequence.
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slight variation

tokenize($url,'/')[.][last()]

that gets me the last bit of a url irrespective of whether it ends with a /