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neo kSubject: delimiting values of attribute and element
Author: neo k
Date: 14 Aug 2008 05:12 PM
Originally Posted: 14 Aug 2008 05:11 PM
Dear all,
I am very new to xquery.

I have a case and i am here for some help. My requirement is, value of an element or an attribute having the same xpath should be delimited using # and should be returned as a new element

ex:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<books name="My books">
<book bookid="1" pubdate="03/01/2002">
Java Web Services
</book>
<book bookid="2" pubdate="01/01/2000">
Java Message Service
</book>
</books>

In the above case when i query using the path books/book/@bookid the response should be the values of the attribute bookid delimited using # and should look some like
<output> 1#2 </output>

similarly for elements it should look like
<output> Java Web Services # Java Message Service </output>


thanks in advance
Neo
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Minollo I.Subject: delimiting values of attribute and element
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 14 Aug 2008 05:18 PM
Something like this?
<output>{string-join(/books/book/@bookid, "#")}</output>
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neo kSubject: delimiting values of attribute and element
Author: neo k
Date: 14 Aug 2008 05:35 PM
Hi,
That works. Thanks a lot.

I feel stupid for not finding this, as i have done something very similar to this for elements and that works.

(fn:string-join(($value/text()),' | '))

The above worked nice for elements, when i tried the same for attributes it gave me a fat error. I dint want to try any more and gave a quick post :D

 
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