Re: [Exist-development] [Exist-open] Documenting XQuery issues

[Ron V. d. B. <ron...@ka...>]

Hi,

Ralf Jung wrote:
> as discussed in the "[Exist-open] Forbidden re-ordering of a sequence" 
> thread, I wrote a summary of the issues in the eXist XQuery evaluation 
> that I am aware of.

Excellent idea! I'd volunteer in helping to contribute to this.

Adam Retter wrote:
> Probably would be good to add an official page to eXist-db's source 
> code, linked form the XQuery documentation called something like 
> 'eXist-db XQuery quirks and known issues'

 From my experience, I realize it's not always easy to pin down such 
bugs and formulate quality test expressions. Moreover, some of them 
might be related, and higher-order patterns might appear only 
afterwards. Hence, I'm convinced that collecting such quirks can be a 
messy business, which definitely benefits from collaboration. Therefore, 
I'd like to ask what would be the preferred way forward, from the 
developers' point of view? Just committing this page to the webapps 
folder (I can do this) and edit it along the way, or would you prefer a 
prior 'stabilizing' phase, where ideas / refinements are collected 
somewhere outside the eXist source tree (though that's perhaps what the 
bug tracker is for?)? In the latter case, would 
<http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery/> be a good place?

Kind regards,

Ron

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