Sometimes several things share somewhat complex lists; for example, 'falseNumberMap': { 'road-names': { 'regexp': '^A.P.A.', 'label': '#' }, 'utah-something': { 'regexp': '^\p{Zs}*U\.C\.A\.', 'label': '#' }, 'house-bill': { 'regexp': '^\p{Zs}*H\.B\.', 'label': '#' }, 'post-office-box': { 'regexp': '^\p{Zs}*P\.O\.', 'label': '#' } } (The real one is a lot longer; these are regular expressions matching things at the start of a line that a conversion process might otherwise mistake for numbers and think it should treat specially.) The map lives in a file; it might be maintained by hand. Various queries want to be able to load this map so they can follow a common pattern for identifying numbers. I'm used to using some flavour of eval() function to do this, but if eval() causes a global lock I would rather use something that didn't. Thanks! Graydon On Thu, Feb 26, 2026, at 15:07, Christian Grün wrote:
I should not think of xquery:eval() as "parse this harmless XPath map". Hopefully I will remember this! (Is there a good/better/expected way to pass data around as XPath maps?)
I am not sure what you are trying to achieve. Do you have a little example?