Re: [Exist-development] default context in functions

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

Yes I agree we should fix this, are you volunteering ;-)

On 18 July 2010 10:35, James Fuller <jam...@ex...> wrote:
> courtesy Norm Walsh via twitter
>
> paraphrasing: 'During eval of a fn, the context item, pos, size is
> undefined, except where it is def by some expr inside the fn'
>
> section 3.1.5 Function Calls in XQuery spec defines the correct
> behavior for this.
>
> so looks like we need to sort this out, we should probably also create
> an xquery level unit test for this as well ... something I think we
> should do whenever we apply a patch/bug/tweak that can be
> characterized easily as expected result from xquery unit test.
>
> J
>
>
>
>
> On 17 July 2010 14:21, Dmitriy Shabanov <sha...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 13:31 +0200, James Fuller wrote:
>>> I can appreciate that both functions ( e.g. local:test() and name() )
>>> when given no argument use default context but can't find in xquery
>>> related specs what the rules are for default context for a function
>>> with no arguments.
>>
>> The function don't have context. You right, it should throw error. (BTW,
>> I like the way it work now)
>>
>>> should this throw an [XPDY0002] evaluation of an expression relies on
>>> some part of the dynamic context that has not been assigned a value:
>>> {context item}.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dmitriy Shabanov
>>
>>
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