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

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

Hi there,

Should your path include <listPerson>?

tei:teiHeader/tei:profileDesc/tei:particDesc/tei:listPerson/tei:person/...

Or do you need an extra slash after the doc root:

let $dob := $doc//tei:teiHeader

(the document root is not necessarily the same as the root XML element.)

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-03-11 10:26 PM, Christopher Thomson wrote:
> 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
>>>