Re: [Exist-open] Missing <?xml... declaration

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

> Help! I created a simple xquery (which works fine in the "Basic xquery
> interface").  I then saved the query in a file named current.xq and placed
> it in eXists' xquery directory.  When I call the query using the uri
> http://localhost:8080/exist/xquery/current.xq , the query runs perfectly,
> but  the result is missing the <?xml version...?> declaration and has an
> added html <!DOCTYPE...> tag.  What am I doing wrong?  I need the xml
> declaration and not for my client app to work properly.

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration is added by Cocoon, not eXist. If you don't 
want Cocoon to post-process the result, change the file name to end with 
.xql instead of .xq. The xquery will then be processed by the xquery 
servlet, not Cocoon.

Also, you can use a pragma to set the desired output options. In your 
query add:

(::pragma exist:serialize omit-xml-declaration=no ::)

> The other thing I tried was using a transform:transform($root,
> "stylesheet.xsl", $params) where the stylesheet's output mode was set
> explicitly to "xml" but I recieved the same results.

Same thing here: the output is passed to Cocoon.

Wolfgang