Hi Hans-Jürgen,

The insertion of namespace nodes has not been defined in the XQuery Update spec. You may need choose the classic element constructor for that:

let $doc := <doc><a/></doc>

return element { node-name($doc) } {

$doc/@*,

namespace xyz { 'https://basex.org/ns' },

$doc/node()

}

Hope this helps,

Christian

Von: Hans-Juergen Rennau via BaseX-Talk <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Gesendet: Samstag, 2. August 2025 15:51
An: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Betreff: [basex-talk] Add namespace bindings via copy/modify/return

Dear BaseX people,

I cannot use copy/modify/return in order to add a namespacing:

let $doc := <doc><a/></doc>

return

copy $doc_ := $doc

modify

insert node namespace xyz {'https://basex.org/ns'} into $doc_

return $doc_

<doc>

<a/>

</doc>

Is this a bug?

Kind regards,

Hans-Jürgen