Re: [Qexo-general] Query on multiple documents

[Ali Mesbah]

As quoted from Per Bothner <address@hidden>:
> 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 ...

The question was actually if there is an implicit way of doing this. You do not
want to specify all the names of the xml documents. 

something like: 

for $doc in document(*)
for $phone in $doc//phone return ...


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>       --Per Bothner
> address@hidden   http://per.bothner.com/
> 
> 

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