Subtlety about p:xquery

• From: Florent Georges <fgeorges@fgeorges.org>
• Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:13:17 +0100
• To: XProc Comments <public-xml-processing-model-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <ebaca5bf0910270513x34550fdau6b7652efa2b67a78@mail.gmail.com>

  Hi,

  The CR says, about p:xquery:

    If the document root element is c:query, the text descendants of
    this element are considered the query.  Because XQuery is not
    necessarily well-formed XML, any markup that occurs in the query
    must be escaped.

  Actually, that's not exactly true.  This is not because XQuery can
be ill-formed that we have to escape markup, but because we define the
query text as the string value of the c:query element, and markup is
not part of the string value (indeed, that's because XQuery can be
ill-formed that we decided to take the string value of c:query.)

  Regards,

-- 
Florent Georges
http://www.fgeorges.org/

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