> BTW is there a way to search the archives? I could not find a way on the > website.
Here you are: http://basex.org/service/mailinglist-search/ http://www.mail-archive.com/basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de/msg00924.html On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Brock, David <david_br...@mentor.com> wrote: > Thanks a bunch Christian, that did the trick! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Grün [mailto:christian.gr...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 1:25 PM > To: Brock, David > Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de > Subject: Re: [basex-talk] fn:trace() does not print > > It seems as if Saxon handles the empty sequence as a special case. The > following query.. > > trace( (1,2), "Trace: ") > > ..will create similar output in BaseX, Saxon, Zorba and other processors > while Saxon is the only one (I tried) to return output for an empty sequence, > such as... > > trace( (), "Trace: ") > > The specification does not enforce a certain behavior on how to handle > sequences [1], which is why different solution have been chosen. > > Hope this helps, > Christian > > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-30/#func-trace > _______________________________ > >> My query is of the form: >> >> if (not(empty($variable))) then >> ... return some XML... >> else >> fn:trace((), "Warning : Variable is empty") >> >> After your reply I tried the following to see if I remove the optimization, >> but not luck - still no output on stderr: >> >> if (not(empty($variable))) then >> ... return some XML... >> else >> $result := fn:trace((), "Warning : Variable is empty") >> return $result _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
