RE: meaning of (salary, bonus)

If your external XQuery environment provides a binding of the context
node. One example is a DOM-extension interface that provides a query
expression for a given node.

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard Katz [mailto:howardk@fatdog.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 17:12 PM
> To: www-ql@w3.org
> Subject: meaning of (salary, bonus)
> 
> 
> I'm trying to understand the semantics of constructed sequences. The
> following query is given as an example of a valid sequence in "3.3.1:
> Constructing Sequences" in both the current XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0
> working
> drafts:
> 
>      (salary, bonus)
> 
> with the following commentary: "This expression contains all salary
> children
> of the context node followed by all bonus children"
> 
> Can this expression be used outside a location path? I can see
returning
> this expression as a function result, but can someone provide other
> examples
> of valid use? And in such a case, what is the meaning of "context
node"?
> 
> Thanks,
> Howard