Re: [Exist-development] doc-available() should not produce true for non XML files

[Leif-Jöran O. <lj...@ex...>]

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Den 2011-10-06 22:09, Adam Retter skrev:
> You are correct in your understanding of the XQuery spec, and I could
> easily make this change and probably should. But I do wonder how many
> people rely on this existing bad behaviour.
> 
> Its tricky because eXist-db has no notion of both 'XML Documents' and
> 'Binary documents'. Perhaps we should start referring to Binary
> documents as Binary resources.
> 
> I am reluctant to fix this, because calling doc-available() and getting
> true() for a URI that points to a binary resource makes perfect sense to
> me. Unfortunately its not compliant with the specification, however the
> specification has no consideration whatsoever of Binary
> documents/resources because its the XML Query specification.
> 
> We perhaps need an xmldb:doc-exists() function to replace this once we
> bring fn:doc-available() inline with the specs.

Well, we added util:binary-doc-available quite some time ago just to
encompass this.

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