Re: [basex-talk] eval evil?

2012-04-29 Thread Christian Grün
Andy, thanks for the blog entry; nice to a have a first feedback on this new feature, which we are already using excessively on our own.. Christian ___ On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Andy Bunce wrote: > Hi Christian, > > db:output() is working for me. I have put toget

Re: [basex-talk] eval evil?

2012-04-29 Thread Andy Bunce
Hi Christian, db:output() is working for me. I have put together a little blog piece about it http://cubeb.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/listman.html /Andy On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Andy Bunce wrote: > Hi Christian, > > This looks like a clean and sufficient solution to the problem. > I will t

Re: [basex-talk] eval evil?

2012-04-23 Thread Andy Bunce
Hi Christian, This looks like a clean and sufficient solution to the problem. I will try it out and let you know how it goes. Thanks. /Andy On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Christian Grün wrote: > Dear Andy, > > sorry for the frightening delay! We haven't been inactive, however: > you have warme

Re: [basex-talk] eval evil?

2012-04-19 Thread Christian Grün
Dear Andy, sorry for the frightening delay! We haven't been inactive, however: you have warmed up a frequently discussed limitation of XQuery Update, and after a longer discussion, we found a solution that complies to the semantics of the XQuery Update spec., but still gives you a solution to retu

[basex-talk] eval evil?

2012-04-13 Thread Andy Bunce
Musing on the the usefulness of actions that update the database and return something, specifically in a web server with Xforms context, and the absence of XQuery scripting. I have been playing around with things like the following: let $s:=util:eval(' let $x:=copy $c:=db:open("listman","1.xml") m