On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 04:27, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:33 PM Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> I would be happy with functions to get the sequence of members/entries >> from an array or map instead of a specific `for member` syntax. Other >> languages provide both a map:values and a map:entries function in addition >> to the existing map:keys function, so that and having a non-recursive >> array:flatten would be useful. >> > > There is already array:flatten in XPath 3.1: > > https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#func-array-flatten > The array:flatten function is recursive, so `array:flatten([1, [2, 3], 4])` will yield the sequence `(1, 2, 3, 4)`, not `(1, [2, 3], 4)`, so cannot be used if you just want to enumerate the members of the array! That is what Christian Grün is referring to, and what I meant by a "non-recursive array:flatten". Kind regards, Reece
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