Re: [Qexo-general] Query on multiple documents

[Per Bothner]

Ali Mesbah wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to execute an XQuery on multiple documents.
> For instance imagine I have 5 documents called person1.xml, person2.xml, ...
> and each person has one or more phone numbers. I would like an XQuery which
> iterates over all the 5 documents and retrieves the phone numbers from those 
> files.
>
> let $persons = document(all the personN.xml documents) 
>
> Is in qexo something like this possible and if so how?

For example:

for $doc in (document("person1.xml"), document("person2.xml"), ...)
for $phone in $doc//phone return ...

or (only in newest CVS version of Qexo):

for $doc in document(("person1.xml", "person2.xml", ...))
for $phone in $doc//phone return ...
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