[basex-talk] XQuery comments in Return clause?

[Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS)]

Hi all,

I can't tell if this is a  bug or not.

I commented out a line in my Return clause so that I could test performance. To 
my surprise, the comment was interpreted as part of the literal response, and 
the expression within the commented line was evaluated. If this is expected 
behaviour, is there a workaround?

  return
    <dup>
      <pii>{ $val }</pii>
(:       {/results/dataset/item[pii = $val]/dbpath}     :)
    </dup>

----------------------
   Result:
----------------------

<dup>
  <pii>0022-0728(92)80265-6</pii>
(:       
<dbpath>SCODAT00000000001/15726657/v336i1-2/0022072892802657/main.xml</dbpath>
  
<dbpath>SCODAT00000000002/15726657/v336i1-2/0022072892802656/main.xml</dbpath>  
   :)
    </dup>
<dup>

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