Just one more point. I had thought I would solved the first, more minor
issue, by wrapping the XML in a document node. But that still does not
work...

document { <?hi there?><Root><?hi there?></Root> }


Neil.



on 30/7/14 9:51 AM, neil bradley <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having two problems with processing instructions.
>
> First, in general it seems I cannot create one that is before the root
> element.
>
> I can type this into QC and run it and the result is as expected:
>
> <?hi there?>
>
> I can also have one embedded in an element and again it is preserved
> in the output:
>
> <Root><?hi there?></Root>
>
> But it seems I cannot have a PI before a root element. This does not
> work when I enter it into QC, and I get “unexpected token syntax
> error”:
>
> <?hi there?>
> <Root><?hi there?></Root>
>
> However, that is a side issue to my main concern…
>
> I can import an XML document that has a leading PI, store it in ML,
> and it is still there when I query the document. I can even save it
> using xdmp:save() and the PI is still there, as I would expect. But
> when I store the XML file in a ZIP instead, it is removed!
>
> Here is sample code that saves a ZIP file that removes the leading PI
> from the document:
>
> let $Doc := doc("/MyDoc.xml")
> let $Parts := <parts xmlns="xdmp:zip"><part>MyDoc.xml</part></parts>
> let $ZIP := xdmp:zip-create($Parts, $Doc)
> return
> xdmp:save("c:/TEST/test.zip", $ZIP,  <options
> xmlns="xdmp:save"><encoding>utf8</encoding></options>)
>
> Does anyone have experience of this, and know any workaround. It is
> really important that I preserve the PIs at the top of documents and
> place them in a ZIP.
>
> Neil.
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