XML comments ... of course ;-) Thanks for your incredibly fast response, Christian.
-----Original Message----- From: Christian Grün [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 April 2014 23:58 To: Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS) Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [basex-talk] XQuery comments in Return clause? > 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? This is expected behavior, as you may want to have smileys in your XML snippets: <x> (: </x> As workaround, you can either use XML comments... <x><!-- ... --></x> ...or sth like this: <x>{ (: ... :) () } </x> > > 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> > > > ________________________________ > > Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The > Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677, Registered in The Netherlands. ________________________________ Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677, Registered in The Netherlands.
