Tried that already but that will give me a let that follows a group by
which is not allowed so I put the return back.

When I moved the count up before the group by (still with no return) to
counter that eXist gave me


err:XPDY0002 variable '$count' is not set. [at line 11, column


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote:

> You need to cut out that middle "return". You've written two nested FLWOR
> expressions, and an "order by" clause on the inner FLWOR expression isn't
> going to affect the order of the outer FLWOR expression.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
> On 7 Jan 2014, at 10:47, Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> xquery version "3.0";
> The task is to display things in descending order of the number of times
> they occur.
>
> New Effort
>
> import module namespace sp="urn:xxxxxxxxxx.com" at 'common.xqm';
>
> <counts>{
> for $thing  in
> subsequence(collection($sp:reviewsColl)/descendant::reviews[1]//thing,1,50000)
>   group by $name:=$thing/@name
>   return
>       let $count:=count($thing)
>       order by $count descending
>       return <thing name="{$name}" count="{$count}" />}
> </counts>
>
> In New Effort, my post-grouping tuple should consist of the grouping key
> and a sequence of n $things where n is the number of of  $thing for that
> grouping key.
> I aim to capture that in the let so that I can order by it when outputing.
>
> However the ordering does is ineffective and I get the same output as
> Original effort below which makes no attempt to order.
>
> Original Effort
>
> xquery version "3.0";
>
> import module namespace sp="urn:xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com" at 'common.xqm';
>
> <counts>{
> for $thing in
> subsequence(collection($sp:reviewsColl)/descendant::reviews[1]//thing,1,50000)
>   group by $name:=$thing/@name
>
>       return <thing name="{$name}" count="{count($thing)}" />}
> </counts>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> [email protected]
> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> [email protected]
> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
>
_______________________________________________
[email protected]
http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk

Reply via email to