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Jeni Tennison wrote: > It was simply that in the XQuery WD there's no mention of parameters > in the query prolog. Perhaps they're waiting in the wings. Fair enough. > I guess that you could have parameterisation through separate XML > documents accessed by document() (though without being able to supply > the location of the document as a parameter, you're pretty limited). I was thinking of something much more simple -- a simple parameter marker (?) that allows you to pass in values a la SQL: FOR $book IN document("catalog.xml")//book WHERE $book/author = ? RETURN $book Of course, if this isn't in the language, it's not possible. Then again, it will be among the first non-standard extensions that people invent. -- Ron
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