We continuously improve the XQuery compliance ratio of BaseX. In the
beginning, we considered the serialization of attributes helpful, but
as it contradicted with the serialization spec., we eventually removed
this exception and replaced it with the correct behavior.


decided to make BaseX more conformant

> Thanks for your answers.
>
> In the earlier versions of BaseX, upto 7.6, the following query was running
> smoothly -
>
> for $x in doc('docs')//Doc[Year="2014"]/@name
> order by $x
> return $x
>
> So, in all of my code, I have used in same manner. But in 7.8.1 and onwards
> (after 7.6, I directly jumped to 7.8.1),
> this query results in error !!!
>
> So for this new versions, my above query will be -
>
> for $x in doc('docs')//Doc[Year="2014"]/@name
> order by $x
> return $x/string() (: or $x/data() :)
>
> But, then why the earlier versions where supporting the first query ?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > [SENR0001] Attributes cannot be serialized:db:open-pre("docdb",7).
>>
>> This is in compliance with the spec, which prevents attributes from
>> being serialized without their elements. A simple example that
>> triggers the error:
>>
>>   <a b="c"/>/@b
>>
>> This is how you can request the attribute value:
>>
>>   <a b="c"/>/@b/data()
>>
>> This is how you can request its name:
>>
>>   <a b="c"/>/@b/name()
>
>
>
>
> --
> Have a nice day
> JBest
>
>
>

> _______________________________________________
> BaseX-Talk mailing list
> BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
>