[xquery-talk] Collections - family relationships

Ihe Onwuka ihe.onwuka at gmail.com
Sat Jan 18 10:34:33 PST 2014


You have too many R's in your GRRRRR!

Try GRRRI instead and  use ? instead of ! at the end of your R's thats
the normal way to solve these kind of problems in 3.0

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Joe Wicentowski <joewiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't ask for constructive suggestions.  Read the original post.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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