I am using MarkLogic release 8.0-4 and I get a problem with fn:replace if the 
second argument exceeds a certain length. I use the following script in XQuery. 
This is just a simple query with the only goal to show the error.


let $string1 := "aaaa"
let $string2 := "bbbb"
let $length-1 := 1463
let $length-2 := 1464
let $piece-of-xml := '<change when="2015-01-21" status="created"/><change 
when="2015-09-16" who="9999999999999999999">ABCD EF G</change><change 
when="2015-09-17" who="9999999999999999999">ABCD EF G</change><change 
when="2015-09-22" who="999999999999999999">ABCD EF GH</change><change 
when="2015-10-09" who="9999999999999999999">ABCD EF G</change><change 
when="2016-04-01" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-04-02" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-04-06" who="999999999999999999">ABCD EF GH</change><change 
when="2016-04-09" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-04-10" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-04-18" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdef</change><change 
when="2016-04-22" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-04-23" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-06-26" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-06-27" who="9999999999999999999">Abcdef Abcdefghijk</change><change 
when="2016-06-28" who="9999999999999999999">Abcdef Abcdefghijk</change><change 
when="2016-07-01" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-07-02" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-07-02" who="9999999999999999999">Abcdef Abcdefghijk</change><change 
when="2016-07-03" who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change 
when="2016-07-03" who="9999999999999999999">Abcdef 
Abcdefghijk</change></listChange>'
let $test1 := fn:substring($piece-of-xml,1,$length-1)
return fn:replace($string1,$test1,$string2)

This returns the expected value 'aaaa'.

But when I increase the selected length by 1 by replacing:

let $test1 := fn:substring($piece-of-xml,1,$length-1)

by

let $test1 := fn:substring($piece-of-xml,1,$length-2)

I get the error:
XDMP-REGEX: (err:FORX0002) fn:replace("aaaa", "<change 
when=&quot;2015-01-21&quot; status=&quot;created&quot;/>...", "bbbb") -- 
Invalid regular expression
The value of $test1 at that point is:

<change when="2015-01-21" status="created"/><change when="2015-09-16" 
who="9999999999999999999">ABCD EF G</change><change when="2015-09-17" 
who="9999999999999999999">ABCD EF G</change><change when="2015-09-22" 
who="999999999999999999">ABCD EF GH</change><change when="2015-10-09" 
who="9999999999999999999">ABCD EF G</change><change when="2016-04-01" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-04-02" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-04-06" 
who="999999999999999999">ABCD EF GH</change><change when="2016-04-09" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-04-10" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-04-18" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdef</change><change when="2016-04-22" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-04-23" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-06-26" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-06-27" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcdef Abcdefghijk</change><change when="2016-06-28" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcdef Abcdefghijk</change><change when="2016-07-01" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-07-02" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-07-02" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcdef Abcdefghijk</change><change when="2016-07-03" 
who="9999999999999999999">Abcd Abcdefgh</change><change when="2016-07

Why do I get this error in MarkLogic?


Johan de Boer
Developer Java / Developer MarkLogic
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