[xquery-talk] Collections - family relationships

[Ihe Onwuka]

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On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Joe Wicentowski <joewiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a major bone to pick with the XQuery working group and all users of the language, who must all be insane.
>
> When I'm trying to write a program in XQuery and it isn't working, I need to blow off steam with a pissed off comment in the code right where the error message appears.  So I write my comment:
>
>>:( XQuery makes no sense to me!!! ):<
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> But this raises new errors!  So I try a different comment syntax:
>
>>:^( GRRRR! )v:<
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> And another error appears!
>
> Why doesn't XQuery understand my comments?  Change it now or I will never cease to complain.
>
> Oh, and I'm not interested in code samples showing the correct syntax for comments or explanations about the origins of whatever crazy comment syntax they came up with.
>
> One final note to anyone who tries to be helpful: Shove it!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jan 18, 2014, at 11:02 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Adam Retter <adam.retter at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> You know full well that the design isn't going to be improved in a subsequent release unless there's an issue that's a real  stopper, because people expect backwards compatibility.
>>>>
>>>> http://exist.2174344.n4.nabble.com/Signature-of-fn-filter-doesn-t-look-like-it-conforms-to-the-spec-td4662991.html
>>>
>>> I am not sure that this is making the point you think it is!
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>> It does.
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>>> snipped
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>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, I am sure you realise that you could write your own function
>>> in XSLT, let's call it 'doc-or-empty' and use it in place of doc to
>>> achieve exactly what you want.
>>
>> Yes and I have no intention of doing so.
>>
>> See the original post here.
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>> http://exist.2174344.n4.nabble.com/Why-does-it-think-the-variable-is-not-set-tc4663027.html#none
>>
>> I knew that parenthesising the return expression would fix the problem
>> but I didn't know why. Wolfgang's answer told me.
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