Re: [Exist-open] SOAP xQuery Failing

[Adam R. <ada...@de...>]

> > eXist was changed so that doc() now throws an exception if you give
> it a 
> > path to a non-existent document. doc-available() has been
> implemented to 
> > allow you to check if the document exists.
> 
> Yes, that's true. But Chris said he's using the last snapshot, not
> the 
> CVS version. The snapshot did not contain this change.
> 
> > This was done to bring eXist's XQuery inline with the W3C XQuery 
> > Specification.
> 
> Pierrick and I already argued about the correct interpretation of the 
> spec with respect to fn:doc and non-existing documents. Contrary to 
> our first reading, we have now agreed that the spec indeed allows an 
> implementation to return the empty sequence if a document could not
> be 
> found (i.e. if we define that eXist maps all document paths within
> its 
> own URI space to the empty sequence by default). This is the solution 
> I would prefer personally. Otherwise, an expression like
> doc("...")//a 
> would throw an error instead of just returning (). This would somehow 
> be inconsistent compared to other path expressions like e.g. 
> collection("...")//a, which just returns () if the collection is 
> empty. We will thus change fn:doc back to its old behaviour.
> 

Great news :-) I would prefer doc() to return () rather than throw an
error, just need to change my code back now to not use doc-available()


> Wolfgang
> 
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