Thanks Mary. Like I said I have tried many options. The equality match options yields the following errored results without an actual error: <results warning="more than one root item">Nothing dog cat foo bar cat</results>
I haven’t tried running a loop until now and this is what I'm getting" xquery version "1.0-ml"; declare namespace html = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";; declare variable $file-types := ("dog","cat","foo","bar"); let $file-type := ("cat") (: return if (fn:matches($file-types, $file-type)) then else ( ) :) let $nothing := fn:empty( for $f in $file-types return if (fn:matches($f, $file-type)) then "ok" else ()) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Results +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [1.0-ml] XDMP-UNEXPECTED: (err:XPST0003) Unexpected token syntax error, unexpected $end Stack Trace At line 18 column 57: 16. fn:empty( 17. for $f in $file-types return 18. if (fn:matches($f, $file-type)) then "ok" else ()) 19. I know it is something simple, this is one of those cases where for some reason, I just don't see it! Thanks bill -----Original Message----- From: Mary Holstege [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:56 PM To: [email protected]; Hayden, William T Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] error message (err:XPTY0004) arg1 is not of type xs:string? On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:48:03 -0800, Hayden, William T <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps one of you can see the error of my ways. I have tried so many > options with no success. I am using ML5. Here is the latest > simplified version followed by the failing results. > > Thanks in advance! > > xquery version "1.0-ml"; > declare namespace html = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";; declare > variable $file-types := ("dog","cat","foo","bar"); > > let $file-type := ("cat") > > > return if (fn:matches($file-types, $file-type)) then > ("Nothing", $file-types, $file-type) > else > ( > > ) > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Results > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > [1.0-ml] XDMP-ARGTYPE: (err:XPTY0004) fn:matches(("dog", "cat", "foo", > ...), "cat") -- arg1 is not of type xs:string? > Stack Trace > At line 8 column 15: > > $file-type := "cat" > > 6. > 7. > 8. return if (fn:matches($file-types, $file-type)) then 9. ("Nothing", > $file-types, $file-type) 10. else > fn:matches wants there to be a single value a the first argument: it is a regular expression match of one value against one regular expression. If you are just doing an equality match you can use the "=" operator (which will operate over sequences and return true if any member is equal: $file-type = $file-types If you really mean fn:match, then you need to run the loop yourself: let $nothing := fn:empty( for $f in $file-types return if (fn:matches($f, $file-type)) then "ok" else ()) If there is any match the sequence given to fn:empty will be non-empty so $nothing is false. //Mary _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
