Using a string parameter as path expression

[Michael Rys]

No you cannot do this.

 

You would need a dynamic eval functionality that we have postponed to a
future version.

 

Best regards

Michael

 

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Subject:  Using a string parameter as path expression

 


Hello, 

I have a question for a rather simple task which I couldn't find any
solution to. What I want to have is a function that takes an xpath as
string parameter and then evaluates this xpath on a document. This could
look something like the following: 

declare function local:evalPath($path as xs:string) as node() 
{ 
        let $a := doc("sample.xml")/$path 
        return $a 
} 

Unfortunately I couldn't get this simple function to work, so my
question now is: Is it possible with xquery at all to have a variable as
the path expression of a for/let clause? And if so, how? 

Thanks in advance. 

Mathias

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