Re: [basex-talk] A question about the arrow operator and predicates
> > As always, thank you so much! > As always, you're welcome! As a follow up, for my layman's thinking about XPath/XQuery, is this >> effectively creating a sequence > > It does. The expression is completely equivalent to, and just another writing for: tokenize($s, "/").
Re: [basex-talk] A question about the arrow operator and predicates
Christian - As always, thank you so much! On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:35 AM Christian Grün wrote: > Dear Bridger, > > > I was wondering if anyone would have an insight for me as to why the > following expression is wrong: > > > > for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") > > let $t := $s => tokenize("/")[last()] > > return $t > > This is due to the grammar rules of XQuery 3.1, which mandate that > “=>” is followed by an “ArrowFunctionSpecifier” and an “ArgumentList”. > Here are some production rules from the spec: > > [96] ArrowExpr ::= UnaryExpr ( "=>" ArrowFunctionSpecifier ArgumentList )* > [127] ArrowFunctionSpecifier ::= EQName | VarRef | ParenthesizedExpr > [122] ArgumentList ::= "(" (Argument ("," Argument)*)? ")" > … > > The arrow function specifier can be an EQName, a variable reference or > a parenthesized expression. The last one will do the job: > > for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") > let $t := ($s => tokenize("/"))[last()] > return $t > > It does - I had read some other online notes about parenthesizing part of the left hand side expression, but hadn't parenthesized properly. As a follow up, for my layman's thinking about XPath/XQuery, is this effectively creating a sequence that is then filtered? Or am I mentally overloading the parentheses? Thanks for the insight! Hope this helps, > Christian > > [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-31/#id-arrow-operator > > Best, Bridger > > > > > > > Thanks for your help! > > Best, > > Bridger > > > > PS I don't always remember to look at the optimized query in the Info > window, but when I do I always get a hint about something; "util:last()" in > this case. > > > > correctly > > ``` > > for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") > > let $t := tokenize($s, "/")[last()] > > return $t > > ``` > > ``` > > for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") > > let $t := $s => tokenize("/") => util:last() > > return $t > > ``` >
Re: [basex-talk] A question about the arrow operator and predicates
Dear Bridger, > I was wondering if anyone would have an insight for me as to why the > following expression is wrong: > > for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") > let $t := $s => tokenize("/")[last()] > return $t This is due to the grammar rules of XQuery 3.1, which mandate that “=>” is followed by an “ArrowFunctionSpecifier” and an “ArgumentList”. Here are some production rules from the spec: [96] ArrowExpr ::= UnaryExpr ( "=>" ArrowFunctionSpecifier ArgumentList )* [127] ArrowFunctionSpecifier ::= EQName | VarRef | ParenthesizedExpr [122] ArgumentList ::= "(" (Argument ("," Argument)*)? ")" … The arrow function specifier can be an EQName, a variable reference or a parenthesized expression. The last one will do the job: for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") let $t := ($s => tokenize("/"))[last()] return $t Hope this helps, Christian [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-31/#id-arrow-operator > > Thanks for your help! > Best, > Bridger > > PS I don't always remember to look at the optimized query in the Info window, > but when I do I always get a hint about something; "util:last()" in this case. > > correctly > ``` > for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") > let $t := tokenize($s, "/")[last()] > return $t > ``` > ``` > for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") > let $t := $s => tokenize("/") => util:last() > return $t > ```
[basex-talk] A question about the arrow operator and predicates
Hi all - I was wondering if anyone would have an insight for me as to why the following expression is wrong: ``` for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") let $t := $s => tokenize("/")[last()] return $t ``` This is because of the predicate filter, but I'm not clear on *why* it's because of that :) Thanks for your help! Best, Bridger PS I don't always remember to look at the optimized query in the Info window, but when I do I always get a hint about something; "util:last()" in this case. correctly ``` for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") let $t := tokenize($s, "/")[last()] return $t ``` ``` for $s in ("/a/b/c", "/1/2/3") let $t := $s => tokenize("/") => util:last() return $t ```