RE: [Qexo-general] How to use fn:input()

[Denis Goeury]

Hi Per,

Thanks for your answer. Here is what I would like to do.

I have currently a large J2EE application which is heavily XML based.
The next step in this application's life is to replace all the code in
charge of combining different parts of XML with something more elegant,
powerful and easier to maintain. XQuery seems to be the solution, am I
right? 

That's why I would like to find a way to bind multiple XML sources to
one query and produce one document as the result of the query. Is there
a way to do that with your current implementation or is it still too
early?

Denis Goeury

-----Original Message-----
From: Per Bothner [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:58 PM
To: Denis Goeury
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Qexo-general] How to use fn:input()

Denis Goeury wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Providing and input document through fn:document() is working fine but
> how can you use implicit (unnamed) input documents, which are accessed
> using the input() function?

I haven't implemented inpu() because I don't know what the
expected semantics are.  I.e. how do you bind specified
base to whetever the input() function returns?  The
specification is vague:  "The content of the input sequence
is determined in an implementation-defined way."  What did
you have in mind, and what do you want to use it for?
Presumably one way to define the input sequence is using
a command-line flag, but should that be an expression,
a url for an exmpl, a url for a datbase, ...?  You also
want to be able to set the input sequence from a Java
program, presumably.

It would be very useful if somebody could look at other
XQuery implementations, and tell me what they do.
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        --Per Bothner
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