Thank you for your response John.  It is good enough for me right now.  Maybe 
xdmp:is-binary-mode() would make sense though?

  Regards,

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Le Lundi 25 novembre 2013 12h45, John Snelson <[email protected]> a 
écrit :
 
On 25/11/2013 12:19, Florent Georges wrote:
>>    Hi,
>>
>>    In order to deal with binary nodes, I am used to expressions like
>> the following with MarkLogic flavour of XQuery:
>>
>>      $node instance of binary()
>>
>>    But the NodeKind binary() is not available anymore in MarkLogic's
>> implementation of XQuery 3.0.  How can we test whether a node is a
>> binary mode in XQuery 3.0? (I mean, except testing if it is a node,
>> then if it is none of the standard node kinds, which would be very
>> fragile)
>
>The binary() node test is a MarkLogic extension to XQuery, and is only 
>available in "1.0-ml" mode. All XQuery 3.0 features are also available 
>in "1.0-ml" mode.
>
>Other than the methods you suggest, I don't think there is another way 
>to test for a binary node.
>
>John
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