RE: how to write such xquery?

I tried, and found it surprisingly hard. Much easier in XSLT. My general
approach to questions on lists is that if it takes me more than two minutes
to answer, I leave it to someone with more time. Sorry!

 

Michael Kay

 

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From: www-ql-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ql-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Chen
Yabing
Sent: 06 March 2004 02:42
To: Michael Kay; www-ql@w3.org
Subject: RE: how to write such xquery?

 

Thanks a lot.

 

Would you mind write an example query to produce the result by using the
recursive tree walk?

I understand how to use FLWOR to write queries, but quite new the recursive
tree walk and the function used in it.

 

 

 

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From: www-ql-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ql-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of
Michael Kay
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 10:52 PM
To: Chen Yabing; www-ql@w3.org
Subject: RE: how to write such xquery?

 

Your example creates a copy of the input in which all elements except <d
dno="d001"> have been copied. I can't see how this relates to the problem as
you have described it.

 

However, the general answer is that to do this kind of transformation you
need to use the same kind of technique as you would use in XSLT, that is a
recursive tree walk, but using functions rather than template rules. As you
process each level of the tree, you create a new element node with the same
name as the input node, and then apply the function recursively to those
children that you want to copy, excluding those you want to discard.

 

Michael Kay

 

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From: www-ql-request@w3.org [mailto:www-ql-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Chen
Yabing
Sent: 05 March 2004 12:29
To: www-ql@w3.org
Subject: how to write such xquery?

 

Suppose I have a document as follows:

 

<a ano="a001">

   <b bno="b001">

       <c cno="c001"/>

       <d dno="d001"/>

       <d dno="d002"/>

   </b>

   <b bno="b002">

       <c cno="c002"/>

       <d dno="d002"/>

   </b>

</a>

 

I would like to write a query to retrieve those elements from top to down
that has sub element <d> whose dno = "d002". That is, I want the result like
this:

 

<a ano="a001">

   <b bno="b001">

       <c cno="c001"/>

       <d dno="d002"/>

   </b>

   <b bno="b002">

       <c cno="c002"/>

       <d dno="d002"/>

   </b>

</a>

 

How to write such a query in a simple XQuery? Can I use filter function?

Thanks in advance.