Programmatically constructing sequences ("a", "b", "c") for XQuery

[Michael Ludwig]

Andrew Welch schrieb:
> 2009/8/10 Michael Ludwig <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>:

>> Well, I might be misunderstanding, but I do have the tokens; I want
>> to join them. It seems wrong to do this manually, as I don't
>> construct my SQL queries like that, but rather rely on methods like
>> prepare() and bind_param() in Perl's DBI, which handle escaping and
>> prevent injection.
>
> It sounds like you want to pass some values into a query as a sequence
> of strings?  The simplest way is to pass in a single string that is
> the sequence concatenated using some delimiter.
>
> For example, pass in:
>
> "eins, zwei, drei"
>
> as the parameter, then do:
>
> declare variable $files as xs:string+ := tokenize($param, ', ');
>
> which is your sequence of strings.

Andrew,

you're a genius for reading my cloudy thoughts and providing the right
solution! Works perfectly, just what I needed. Thanks a ton!

-- 
Michael Ludwig