Re: [basex-talk] External variables in GUI

Dear Mike,

Firstly I apologise if this has been asked before, but I cannot work out how to search this mailing list without downloading all the archives first.

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It's fine in standalone mode (command line), but I cannot find a way of supplying an external variable in the GUI.

You can either specify external variable bindings via the "set" command in the Command mode..

set bindings $firstName=x

..or add a default value to your XQuery expression (this feature is avaiable since XQuery 3.0):

declare variable $firstName as xs:string external := 'x'; $firstName

Hope this helps, Christian