- From: David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:07:32 GMT
- To: novak@ispras.ru
- CC: martin@x-hive.com, www-ql@w3.org
> Thus they preserve their identity (am I right?).
I don't think so, The semantics of "element new-node {$p/*}"
(in Xquery, without the update extensions) are that the expression
inside the {} is evaluated to get a sequence, and then that sequence is
_copied_ to form child nodes of the newly created element node.
So the <a/> that's below the <newnode> has a new identity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#id-computedElements
says
The content expression of a computed element constructor (if present) is
processed in exactly the same way as an enclosed expression in the
content of a direct element constructor,
and that says
http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/#dt-direct-elem-const
The result of an element constructor is a new element node, with its
own node identity. All the attribute and descendant nodes of the new
element node are also new nodes with their own identities, even if they
are copies of existing nodes.
David
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