Re: [Exist-open] Quantified expressions, SOAP interface and 'insert' expressions

[Jean-Marc V. <jm...@fr...>]

Sam Stokes wrote:

> Hi,
> We've been using eXist as the backend for a prototype of an 
> environmental data reporting system, and have encountered a few bugs 
> along the way - I enclose descriptions and patches/workarounds we've 
> found.  (I've not contributed a patch to an open source project 
> before, so I apologise if these aren't in an appropriate format or if 
> the mailing list isn't the ideal way to submit this.)  

It's OK. You also did a bug report on sf.net, wich is also fine.
Thank you very much .

> We're using the latest version of eXist from CVS (as of a couple of 
> weeks ago), running on Linux under Apache Tomcat.
>
> * Quantified expressions behave strangely
> (Bug #1267554 - 
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1267554&group_id=17691&atid=117691) 
>
> The evaluation of quantified expressions ('[some|every] $foo in [expr] 
> satisfies [expr]') seems to behave incorrectly.  For example the code 
> fragments
> --------
> every $foo in (1,2,3) satisfies
>     let $bar := baz
>     return false()
> --------
> ....
> both return true, whereas I would expect them to return false.  I've 
> found that the attached xquery-quantifiedexpression.patch fixes this 
> problem.

It's commited in the CVS. Your 2 other patches will be treated soon .

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