Re: [basex-talk] Peculiar External Binding and Casting Behaviour

HiShaun,

I do not understand why that should be as there is clearly no mention of xs:double in this query!

I agree that the error message is misleading. You already get it when invoking the following expression: 'a' cast as xs:integer I need to check the code, but I assume that an additional double conversion check takes place in the background in order to ensure that the value can actually be converted to a non-fractional number. For more information on your query, it would be great if you could reduce it to a self-contained example that runs out of the box (I tried to invoke it, but your code seems to rely on an opened database). Best, Christian