[xquery-talk] Collections - family relationships

[Joe Wicentowski]

I didn't ask for constructive suggestions.  Read the original post.

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> On Jan 18, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If getting code, syntax, solutions and help with writing your program
> is your primary and sole objective I recommend StackOverflow.com.
> 
> 
> 
>> 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!!! ):<
>> 
>> But this raises new errors!  So I try a different comment syntax:
>> 
>>> :^( GRRRR! )v:<
>> 
>> 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!
>>> 
>>> It does.
>>> 
>>>> snipped
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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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