Vince Marco wrote:
I'm new to XMLDB and need to retrieve the highest value in an ID field
for a document type. What is the best method of finding this using
Xindice? This would be akin to using a max() function in an RDBMS.
You are aware that IDs in Xindice are by definition XML Names [1], i.e.,
they are strings, not numbers? So that you're asking for the highest
value of a sorted list of Java Strings?
Murray
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-Name
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