Stefano,

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The following method should serve your purpose: XQDynamicContext.bindObject(QName varName, Object value, XQItemType type) Note that the data type needs to be known to XQuery; otherwise, conversion will fail. Hope this helps, Christian ___________________________ Christian Gruen Universitaet Konstanz Department of Computer & Information Science D-78457 Konstanz, Germany Tel: +49 (0)7531/88-4449, Fax: +49 (0)7531/88-3577 http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~gruen