Re: [basex-talk] preprocessor instructions for BaseX XQUERY interpreters ?

Hi Jean-Marc,

Note : processor instructions might not be relevant for XQuery, since interpreters are heavily optimized.

Dito.

2. Could you confirm that BaseX interpreter will not try to interpret "dead"

code ?

If you want to see what’s going on under the hood, simply check out the output from the InfoView panel (or the query info with -V on command line). The following query…

declare variable $DEBUG := true(); if($DEBUG) then <A/> else <B/>

will e. g. be simplified to <A/>. This means that all constants will indeed be pre-evaluated at compile time.

Hope this helps, Christian