Perfect. Thank you everyone.
I was a bit confused about using the string-join function, but I just looked it
up and it makes sense now. So, I can call the following with my function, as
Liam mentioned:
string-join(local:xpath($someNode), '')
Or I can use the new built-in function, as David mentioned, replacing any
unwanted strings, like so:
replace(fn:path($name),'\[1\]|Q\{\}','')
It seems like I have a lot more to get used to with XQuery, but I think that I
understand things a little bit better now. Thanks again,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Liam R E Quin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:48 PM
To: Custer, Mark
Cc: xquery-discuss
Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] Help with an XQuery function
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 11:29 -0400, Custer, Mark wrote:
[..]
> This works, but I was wondering if it could be written better (and I
> imagine that someone already has written a concise XQuery function to
> do this).
It might be easier to write it recursively, but clear is better than concise.
> Also, I'm not entirely sure why, but when I run the above function,
> I get the following result:
>
> /a /b /c[3]
This is because you construct a sequence of strings. Use string-join(
your-function(), "") to fix that.
Or it might be, string-join("", your-function()), I never remember, which
suggests it's the opposite of the other languages I use :-)
Liam
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