Re: [basex-talk] XQuery changes from 7.6 to 7.7

Ah yes, thank you Christian. The XML syntax was what I was missing.

Now I just wrap my query like this: '<xquery><![CDATA[\n'+query+'\n]]></xquery>'

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.comwrote:

Hi Gerald,

have you been defining your commands in a BaseX command script? In that case, you’ll now have to specify your queries in a single line or (better) use the XML syntax for multi-line queries, which could e.g. read as follows:

<xquery><![CDATA[ <Documents>{ for $doc in collection('oscrtest/documents/Photograph')/Document order by $doc/Header/TimeStamp descending return $doc }</Documents> ]]></xquery>

Hope this helps, Christian ___________________________

2013/8/17 Gerald de Jong gerald@delving.eu:

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I am finding strange problems when I try using 7.7 which didn't appear before. I was building queries with XQUERY followed by \n and then the query, which worked in 7.6.

XQUERY

<Documents> { for $doc in collection('oscrtest/documents/Photograph')/Document order by $doc/Header/TimeStamp descending return $doc } </Documents>

Now it warns me about the syntax of my query: "Syntax: XQUERY [query]"

So then I take away the \n so that the query begins after "XQUERY " and

my

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query becomes:

XQUERY <Documents> { for $doc in collection('oscrtest/documents/Photograph')/Document order by $doc/Header/TimeStamp descending return $doc }

</Documents>

upon which it reports:

"[XPST0003] Expecting closing tag </Documents>."

Puzzling about why this happens, I adjust the query to:

XQUERY <Documents>{ for $doc in collection('oscrtest/documents/Photograph')/Document order by $doc/Header/TimeStamp descending return $doc }</Documents>

but then it reports:

"[XPST0003] Expecting expression."

I will have to stick to 7.6 until I understand what to do about these problems.

What am I missing?

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