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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=314330711-04012008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>It looks to me as if you are guessing, and if you're
assuming that XQuery will behave like procedural languages that you may have
encountered in the past. That's not a good way to approach a new language: you
will only find yourself frustrated if you try to learn by trial and
error.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=314330711-04012008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Firstly, take the time to study the XQuery data model. You
will find that it doesn't have arrays, it has sequences.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=314330711-04012008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Also, XQuery is a declarative language, so you can't update
variables.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=314330711-04012008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>The way you initialize a global variable to a sequence of
strings is</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=314330711-04012008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>declare variable $e as xs:string* := {$x, $y, $z,
$u};</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=314330711-04012008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Michael Kay</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.saxonica.com/">http://www.saxonica.com/</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> talk-bounces@x-query.com
[mailto:talk-bounces@x-query.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jayalakshmy
K<BR><B>Sent:</B> 04 January 2008 04:28<BR><B>To:</B>
talk@x-query.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [xquery-talk] Defining a string array and
setting values<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV><BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>I want to declare a string
array and set values to it in a function</FONT> <BR><BR><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>how do i do it using XQuery. Itried using this but
it didn't work</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>declare variable
$errorParam:= "";</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>
$errorParam[.= 0] = $x </FONT><BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2> $errorParam[.= 1] = $y </FONT><BR><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2> $errorParam[.= 2] = $z
</FONT><BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>
$errorParam[.= 3] = $w</FONT> <BR><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>
$errorParam[.= 4] = $u
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