[basex-talk] Passing a map to an external variable

Hello --

I suspect I am being a cabbage somehow, but I'm not figuring this out.

If I have a query in the GUI (9.6.1) which declares an external variable:

declare variable $targetMap external;

and set the value via the GUI $x button to:

map {'structure' : '/some/path/name'}

It doesn't work. Typing the variable as map(*) doesn't work.

declare variable $targets external; declare variable $targetMap as map(*) := xquery:eval($targets);

does work, but makes me think I must be doing something wrong.

How does one go about binding a literal map to an external variable? (I am going to want to do this in a script later; the GUI version is strictly for testing.)

Thanks! Graydon