Re: [Qexo-general] Globals

[Per Bothner]

Seshukumar Venkata Adiraju wrote:
> Is there any way I can bind some global constants before executing a xquery?

This is an important feature, I think, but there isn't yet a standard
way to do it, so I'm loath to specify a mechanism yet, at least until
I see the next draft.

However, this is a way to do it at the Java level:

    XQuery xq = new XQuery();
    xq.define("val1", "foo");

You seem to be using an old version of Qexo - I don't see
Environment.addBinding.

What also works is to define a function in a file thus:

define function foo($var1) {
  <result>{$var1}</result>
}

You can then load this file and call the function.
For example thus:

$ java kawa.repl -f /tmp/foo.xql --
{-- 1--} foo(2)
<result>2</result>
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