[basex-talk] External variables in GUI

24 May 2011

      Firstly I apologise if this has been asked before, but I cannot work out 
how to search this mailing list without downloading all the archives first.

I am working through the XQuery in 10 minutes tutorial and trying this 
XQuery:

declare variable $firstName as xs:string external;
<videos featuring="{$firstName}">
{
let $doc := doc('http://www.stylusstudio.com/examples/videos.xml')
    for $v in $doc//video,
       $a in $doc//actors/actor
    where ends-with($a, $firstName)
       and $v/actorRef = $a/@id
    order by $v/year
    return
<video year="{$v/year}">
          {$v/title}
</video>
}
</videos>

It's fine in standalone mode (command line), but I cannot find a way of 
supplying an external variable in the GUI.

Thanks and regards.

[basex-talk] External variables in GUI

Mike Rothon