Hi Graydon,
You can use FLWOR expressions also with the update keyword:
<xml><a>A</a></xml> update {
for $a in ./a
return replace node $a with $a/node()
}
A shorter (possibly cryptic) variant is to use the simple map operator (!):
<xml><a>A</a></xml> update {
a ! (replace node . with node())
}
Hope this helps,
Christian
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Von: Graydon Saunders via BaseX-Talk <[email protected]>
Gesendet: Samstag, September 27, 2025 7:33:07 AM
An: BaseX <[email protected]>
Betreff: [basex-talk] replacing elements with their children using update
Hello!
So I can use
copy $c := $test
modify (for $each in $c/descendant::html:ins return replace node $each with
$each/node())
return $c
to unwrap all the html ins elements in some test HTML.
If I try to do this using update (because I am under the perhaps mistaken
impression that update can do the same things copy/modify/return can)
$test update {replace node descendant::html:ins with 'CABBAGE'}
works fine; the various ins elements are found and replaced. But if I want to
replace that particular ins element with its children, there doesn't seem to be
a way to specify the children; the context item is the value of $test, not
whatever descendant ins element is being replaced.
How could this be written using update? Can this be written using update?
thanks!
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