Hi Wendell, http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_3.0#External_Variables says you need "external" between the variable name and ":=".
Regards, Ben On 11 June 2013 23:31, Wendell Piez <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure you will forgive me if this is as dumb as I'm afraid it might > be ... trying to cover all possibilities here. > > We recently upgraded (now on 7.7beta) and external scripts stopped > working as expected -- variable bindings of the form > > SET BINDINGS $db=my-db,$start=20001,$count=10000 > > no longer had any effect. Instead, the logic fell back to use values > declared for the variables in the XQuery, which had: > > declare variable $db := 'your-db'; > declare variable $start := 1; > declare variable $count := 1000; > > etc. > > When we removed the declarations from the XQuery, things started > working again. (Note that my assumption of a causal relation here > could be wrong.) > > Should I never have put those declarations in to begin with (even as > defaults, a la XSLT parameter declarations)? > > Is this a BaseX question or an XQuery question? I would like to become > enlightened. > > Thanks as ever, > Wendell > > > -- > Wendell Piez | http://www.wendellpiez.com > XML | XSLT | electronic publishing > Eat Your Vegetables > _____oo_________o_o___ooooo____ooooooo_^ > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
