At 2009-10-22 13:25 -0400, Helen Chen wrote:
I need to check if a node is a type of element, and this element has
namespace, the value for namespace and local name are all stored in
variable, or at least the local name is in variable,
Fine.
when I tried to
use it in typwswitch, it seems that in case part the element does not
like variable,
Indeed it should not ... element() is a node test it is not a function call:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xquery-20070123/#doc-xquery-ElementTest
How can I do it?
By using node-name() as shown below.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . Ken
T:\ftemp>type helen.xq
let $subname := "subsect1"
let $testsubnode := element { fn:QName("http://www.somens.com",
$subname) }
{ "test node" }
return
if ( node-name($testsubnode) = fn:QName("http://www.somens.com",
$subname) )
then "found" else "not found"
T:\ftemp>xquery helen.xq
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>found
T:\ftemp>
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