Hi Arjen, If I understand you correctly you are interested in a 'text' output mode that does not escape any characters.
Up to now every serialization mode in MXQ however escapes '"', '<', and '>'. A new (perhaps in some sense inconsistent) mode could avoid this escaping and in my eyes would mean only a small change to the serializer. Cheers, Jan On 07/12/2007 10:47 PM, Arjen P. de Vries wrote with possible deletions: > Thanks Sjoerd, Jens, that answers it. > > Any suggestion how to achieve what I am really after? > > I have an XML file with email addresses and names, > and want to output a text string with > "Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Now I use a web browser to convert <> into <>, > but that cannot be the intention of using XQuery for your data > management, could it?! > > I found that > http://www.gnu.org/software/qexo/Extensions.html > introduces a special function - but is not standard. > > Would the answer lie in a different output mode? > > The serialization page > (http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20030502/#N40063A) > states: > The text output method outputs the data model by outputting the > string-value of every > text node in the data model in document order without any escaping. > > Any chance that MonetDB/XQ will support such a text output mode? > > Cheers, > > Arjen > > On 12/07/07, Sjoerd Mullender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 07/12/2007 08:46 PM, Arjen P. de Vries wrote: >>> I have two followup questions then: >>> >>> 1. >>> should >>> <a><![CDATA[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]]></a> >>> not leave the CDATA intact and not replace the < to < ? >>> >>> Disclaimer: I am not very sure what should be correct. >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20030502/ >>> states >>> Note: >>> This is phrased to permit an implementor to provide an option that >>> attempts to preserve >>> CDATA sections present in the source document. >> CDATA is CDATA, no matter the representation. In both cases the content >> of the <a> element is CDATA, it's just encoded differently. I doubt >> that there is a way for MonetDB/XQuery to find out which encoding was used. >> >>> 2. >>> Should >>> xquery><![CDATA[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]]></a> >>> more>MAPI = [EMAIL PROTECTED]:50000 >>> QUERY = <![CDATA[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]]></a> >>> ERROR = !parse error: syntax error, unexpected <![CDATA[ on line 1, >>> column 9 (next token is `<![CDATA[') >>> !parse error: XQuery parsing failed >>> >>> also have been allowed - a bit weird if it is allowed inside another >>> element? >> I don't know enough about XQuery, but my guess is: no. >> >> When you look at the XQuery grammar >> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#nt-bnf) you'll see that (after the >> optional prologue stuff) the query consists of a list of comma-separated >> ExprSingles, and that an ExprSingle is one of FLWORExpr, QuantifiedExpr, >> TypeswitchExpr, IfExpr, OrExpr. The only one (in a quick scan) that >> doesn't have to start with a keyword is OrExpr in the guise of a >> PathExpr. And the only CDataSection (<![CDATA[...]]>) is inside a >> <tag>...</tag> construct. >> >>> Cheers. >>> >>> Arjen >>> >>> On 12/07/07, Sjoerd Mullender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Arjen P. de Vries wrote: >>>>> While >>>>> <a /> >>>>> is accepted as a query, >>>>> <![CDATA[<]]> >>>>> is not. >>>>> !parse error: syntax error, unexpected <![CDATA[ on line 1, column 9 >>>>> (next token is `<![CDATA[') >>>>> !parse error: XQuery parsing failed >>>>> >>>>> Is that the expected behaviour? >>>>> >>>>> Context: I try to output email addresses as "test <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" >>>>> and failing >>>>> >>>>> Arjen >>>>> >>>> This works: >>>> >>>> xquery><a><![CDATA[<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]]></a> >>>> more><> >>>> <a><[EMAIL PROTECTED]></a> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Sjoerd Mullender >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> Sjoerd Mullender >> >> > > -- Jan Rittinger Database Systems Technische Universität München (Germany) http://www-db.in.tum.de/~rittinge/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Monetdb-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/monetdb-developers
