Re: [eXist-TEIXML] passing arguments to XQuery functions

[Martin H. <mh...@uv...>]

Do you have the tei: prefix correctly declared in your bibl.xqm module?

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-11 12:27 PM, Christopher Thomson wrote:
> I am creating an module to hold commonly used XQuery expressions as
> functions. $doc defines the document in my collection of TEI files, and
> the following returns a date of birth in the desired way:
>
> *<div id="sidebar" class="span-6">
> <h3><b>{$fullname}</b></h3>
>
> let $dob :=
> $doc/tei:teiHeader/tei:profileDesc/tei:particDesc/tei:person/tei:birth
> return <p>{$dob/text()}</p>
> </div>*
>
> Next, I move this code to a function in a module in the namespace bibl.
> The above div becomes:
>
> *<div id="sidebar" class="span-6">
> <h3><b>{$fullname}</b></h3>
>
> { bibl:dob($doc) }
> </div>*
>
> The function is declared in the bibl.xqm module thus:
>
> *declare function bibl:dob($doc) {
> let $dob :=
> $doc/tei:teiHeader/tei:profileDesc/tei:particDesc/tei:person/tei:birth
> return <p>{$dob/text()}</p>
> };*
>
> This arrangement does not return the date of birth to the resulting web
> page. Does anyone see where the error is here? I have assumed the $doc
> argument will be passed from the main page to the function in the bibl
> module. 'bibl' is imported into the main page and seems to be defined
> correctly as a module.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>