The eq operator is not the right tool for that job. Try fn:deep-equal() 
instead. If you are interested in the why, you might read 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath20/#id-atomization

-- Mike

On 8 Feb 2011, at 10:51 , Wyatt VanderStucken wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> I'm running into an issue where two clearly different elements seem to 
> be equal.  Specifically, I'm using the root() function to determine if 
> an element passed to a function is the root element.  I've included the 
> code and resulting log file output below.  I'm using MarkLogic 4.1-5 
> (XQuery version 0.9-ml).  Is there a better way to accomplish this?  Any 
> ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> CODE:
> define function augmentation:allowedSiblings($schema as element(), $xml 
> as element(), $direction as xs:string) as element()* {
>     xdmp:log(concat("XML: ", xdmp:quote($xml))),
>     xdmp:log(concat("ROOT: ", xdmp:quote(root($xml)))),
>     if ($xml eq root($xml)) then xdmp:log("IS ROOT!!!")
>     else (
> xdmp:log("NOT ROOT"),
>         ...
>     )
> }
> 
> 
> LOG:
> 2011-02-08 13:33:48.435 Info: skins8003: XML: <paragraph 
> id="11219203668758959999.12004024049727559426" tcs.iscustomized="yes"/>
> 
> 2011-02-08 13:33:48.435 Info: skins8003: ROOT: <item_scoring_object 
> accession_number="SO007350" id="7720283713666233372.4468704661156005354" 
> tcs.iscustomized="yes"><item_scoring_information 
> equivalent_value_flag="not_applicable" max_points="3" 
> not_reached_weight="0.00" number_required_responses="0" 
> omit_weight="0.00" scoring_sort_rule="no" wrong_weight="0.00" 
> id="15035807845964682634.2143736121983627429" 
> tcs.iscustomized="yes"><human_scored_keyset off_topic_codes="0" 
> score_code_range_max="3" score_code_range_min="0" 
> id="15794589581008873975.909344949806971956" 
> tcs.iscustomized="yes"><scoring_guide max_points="3" min_points="2" 
> id="2239949246564743106.1435441036091478339" 
> tcs.iscustomized="yes"><item_score score_weight="1" 
> id="443565930774040320.17569195943517610642" 
> tcs.iscustomized="yes"><paragraph 
> id="11219203668758959999.12004024049727559426" 
> tcs.iscustomized="yes"/></item_score></scoring_guide></human_scored_keyset></item_scoring_information></item_scoring_object>
> 
> 2011-02-08 13:33:48.435 Info: skins8003: IS ROOT!!!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Wyatt VanderStucken
> 
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