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Re: Is an XQuery Document an XML Document?

• To: "Roger L. Costello" <costello@m...>
• Subject: Re: Is an XQuery Document an XML Document?
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:23:05 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <200411281506.iASF6ra06489@s...>

> There is no XML declaration so you might conclude, "No, an XQuery document
> is  not an XML document."

The XML declaration is optional.

> <Equation> {if (1 < 2) then "TRUE" else "FALSE"} </Equation>

According to the note just before section 3.5.1
  When an XPath expression is written within an XML document, the XML
  escaping rules for special characters must be followed; thus "<" must be
  written as "&lt;".

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