[basex-talk] Dynamic xpath

[France Baril]

I'm trying to do something similar to this because I'll have to deal
with xpaths provided by end users as parameters to a rest query:

var xpath='div/p'

for $i in db:open('en-us'){$xpath}
return $i

I saw that it's possible to do it with other tools, but I didn't find if
it's possible with xquery and BaseX.

How SQL dbs do it:

SET @XML1='
<Root>
    <Device>
        <Inspection>
            <Status>OK</Status>
        </Inspection>
    </Device>
</Root>'

SET @PATH = '/Root[1]/Device[1]/Inspection[1]/Status[1]'


SELECT @XML1.query(@PATH)


Any suggestion that doesn't involve analyzing the query string and trying
to rebuild it in some way?



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France Baril
Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect
france.ba...@architextus.com