Re: [basex-talk] getting the type of an arbitrary node

2018-11-09 Thread Graydon Saunders
Hi Christian -- Thank you! That will be useful. (and might have been what dim memory was trying to recall, too.) -- Graydon On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:37 PM Christian Grün wrote: > Hi Graydon, > > Bridger has already given you a perfect reference. > > The XQuery Working Group decided it’s a

Re: [basex-talk] getting the type of an arbitrary node

2018-11-09 Thread Bridger Dyson-Smith
Graydon - That makes sense. Maybe parsing the output of index:facets() would work? If I'm understanding correctly, it will only work from the database level. Bridger On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 1:37 PM Christian Grün wrote: > Hi Graydon, > > Bridger has already given you a perfect reference. > >

Re: [basex-talk] getting the type of an arbitrary node

2018-11-09 Thread Christian Grün
Hi Graydon, Bridger has already given you a perfect reference. The XQuery Working Group decided it’s a cleaner solution to do node tests with typeswitch. If you want to do different things based on the node type, it should be a good alternative to the string-based approach: declare function

Re: [basex-talk] getting the type of an arbitrary node

2018-11-09 Thread Graydon Saunders
Hi Bridger -- Those are helpful, thanks! I was hoping for a built-in (extenstion!) function on the (possibly mistaken) supposition that BaseX just knows that things are in the internal representation and would nigh-certainly be quicker to have something that returns that value directly. --

Re: [basex-talk] getting the type of an arbitrary node

2018-11-09 Thread Bridger Dyson-Smith
HI Graydon - it isn't a builtin function, but maybe the functx:node-kind() and functx:sequence-type() functions are what you want[1,2]? Hope that helps. Best, Bridger [1] http://www.xqueryfunctions.com/xq/functx_node-kind.html [2] http://www.xqueryfunctions.com/xq/functx_sequence-type.html On

[basex-talk] getting the type of an arbitrary node

2018-11-09 Thread Graydon Saunders
Hi! I am overcome with the cabbage-nature today, because I can't find this in the docs. I am convinced there's a way to go: (//some-element/node()) ! fn:node-type(.) and get a sequence of "element(),element(),text()..." but do not know what the actual function is called. (it's not