[Exist-open] xquery quesion

[Manuel L. <ml...@li...>]

hi,

im experimenting with xmlrpc/soap and xquery. when i send the example in
search.pl it works:

for $speech in //SPEECH[LINE &= "magic"]
let $scene := $speech/ancestor::SCENE
let $act := $scene/ancestor::ACT
return
<act title="{$act/TITLE}">
 <scene title="{$scene/TITLE}">{$speech}</scene>
</act>

when i send a xquery that outputs xml without the for ... return function
( eg fibo.xq, biblio.xq, table.xq) i get :
java.lang.Exception: org.exist.EXistException: null

<root>test</root> works with the xquery.xq . but not when i send it directly
via xmlrpc.

what am i doing wrong ?

thanks for help

manuel