Can FLWOR be FLOWR?

[G. Ken Holman]

At 2009-09-24 11:08 -0400, Schwartz, Christine wrote:
>I'm helping teach some basic XQuery and was asked this question: In 
>a FLWOR expression, does the where clause have to come before an 
>order by clause?

Yes, because it qualifies the set that is to be ordered.

>Seems like it should, but can't seem to find this written down anywhere.

Production [33] indicates that the where clause precedes the order by clause:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-xquery-20070123/#id-flwor-expressions

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . Ken


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