To complement this: while not completely made public yet (the next W3 working drafts are to be expected soon), the syntax returned by fn:path() is actually a valid XPath 3.0 expression; see [1] for more details.
Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.0#Expanded_QNames > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > xquery version "3.0"; > > declare option output:separator '\n'; > > declare variable $bad := db:open('Text-DB'); > declare variable $nodes := <nodes><id>499</id><id>713</id></nodes>; > > for $id in $nodes//id > let $path := replace(db:open-id($bad, $id)/path(), 'Q\{.*?\}', '*:') > return $id || ' → ' || xquery:eval('db:node-id(db:open("Text-DB-WS")' || > $path || ')') > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Apparently the return value from path() is not a valid XPath expression; > as a workaround I simply replace the "Q{...}" namespace stuff with "*:". > But I'm not an XQuery hacker, so there's probably a better way... In > any case, the above code works on my test database. > > HTH and greetings > > -- > Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <m...@cl.uzh.ch> > Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich > Phone +41 44 63-54313 | OpenPGP public key ID 0x1614A044 > * OUT NOW: Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology > * <http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-642-23137-7> > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
