[basex-talk] Two questions on use of the serialize function and character maps

31 Mar 2019

      I am struggling to use the "serialize" XPath 3.1 function as specified
by the W3C with BaseX 9.1.2:

1) Is there any way to provide the "use-character-maps" parameter
supplied the XPath 3.1 way with a second argument to "serialize" as a map:
      serialize("a,b", map { 'method' : 'text', 'use-character-maps' :
map { "'" : "&apos;" }})

I get an error saying
   [SEPM0017] Invalid 'use-character-maps' value 'map { "'":
"&apos;" }'; must be a string.

2) When I try the XPath 3.0 way of providing the serialization
parameters as an XML element I also get an error:

When I run

declare namespace output =
"http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";

declare option output:method "text";

serialize(
   (
     <text>'</text>,
     "'",
     map {
       "Ä":"\'C4",
       "Ö":"\'D6",
       "Ü":"\'DC",
       "ß":"\'DF",
       "ä":"\'E4",
       "ö":"\'F6",
       "ü":"\'FC"
     }
   ),
   <output:serialization-parameters
xmlns:output="http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization">
     <output:method value="adaptive"/>
     <output:use-character-maps>
        <output:character-map character="'" map-string="&apos;"/>
     </output:use-character-maps>
   </output:serialization-parameters>
)

in BaseX it tells me
   [SEPM0017] Character map 'character-map=,' is not defined.

Saxon 9.9 and Altova 2018 run that example without giving an error
(although not with the same serialization result, but that is a
different issue).

[basex-talk] Two questions on use of the serialize function and character maps

Martin Honnen