> Is there a way to get a local copy of the database node so that we do not > reference the node in the database for further usage in the xquery (any > other cleaner way instead of iterating over the data and creating a local > copy that foo:get-node-v2 is doing)?
You could try the XQuery Update transform expression [1]: copy $a := <your-result/> modify () return $a [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_Update#transform _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk

