- From: Mike Carey <mcarey@bea.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 07:33:12 -0700
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>, "David Carlisle" <davidc@nag.co.uk>, "Daniel Engovatov" <dengovatov@bea.com>
- Cc: <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
And for attributes? Andt the impact on large transformation queries? Again, this is nothing but syntactic sugar for our users. Else we could just standardize/ship XQuery's core language, right? -----Original Message----- From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org [mailto:public-qt-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Michael Kay Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 7:01 AM To: 'David Carlisle'; Daniel Engovatov Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org Subject: RE: Optional indicator in direct element and attribute constructors. > don't you just need to replace > <b>...</b> > by > > let $x := <b>...</b> > return > if ($x/node()) then $x else () > Or even <b>...</b>[node()] Michael Kay
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