- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:10:17 GMT
- To: ihr@xbrl.org
- CC: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Looking at the current XQuery spec 1.0 I realized that it is not possible to
dynamically create a namespace declaration to an element when you are
dynamically creating the element or when using a QName as element content.
If I understand your example can't you just copy the measure element
from your input (the namespace declaration will be added by the
serialiser). If you do need to generate an in-scope namespace from
scratch from a namespace that is neither in the source file nor query,
it's true that XQuery doesn't have an analogue of XSLT's xsl:namespace
instruction but it is still possible. Consider for example the following
function which generates an element with specified name and a namespace
declaration with a specifed prefix and URI.
It's called with three string literals below and generates
<foobar xmlns:x="http://example.org"/>
but of course the three parameters could be any string-valued
expressions.
David
declare function local:f ($elem as xs:string,$prefix as xs:string,$ns as xs:string) as element() {
element {QName($ns,concat($prefix,":wibble"))}{
element {$elem}{}
}/*};
local:f("foobar","x","http://example.org")
________________________________________________________________________
This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The
service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive
anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit:
http://www.star.net.uk
________________________________________________________________________
Received on Tuesday, 21 February 2006 12:18:30 UTC