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

[Christopher T. <chr...@ca...>]

Thanks for your reply. My bibl.xqm module starts like this:

xquery version "1.0";

module namespace bibl = "www.example.org.nz/ns/xquery/bibl";

declare namespace bibl = "www.example.org.nz/ns/xquery/bibl";
declare namespace exist = "http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist";
declare namespace tei = "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0/";

I then import this module into the query where the function is called. I 
think declaring the bibl namespace in the module is unnecessary, but 
I've been trying various things to get this working, and it doesn't 
produce an error.

Cheers,
Chris


On 12/03/12 12:16 PM, Martin Holmes wrote:
> 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
>>