Can FLWOR be FLOWR?

[Schwartz, Christine]

Ken and John,

Thanks for your help with this. It's interesting to know that XQuery 1.1 will be changing this required order.

Regards,
 
Chris
 
 
> Snelson, John wrote:
> 
> 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?
> >
> > Seems like it should, but can’t seem to find this written down
> anywhere.
> 
> The order of the clauses is fixed for XQuery 1.0, with "order by"
> coming
> after "where".
> 
> In XQuery 1.1 this restriction will be relaxed, allowing clauses in
> almost any order (you have to start with "for", "let" etc.) and
> multiple
> "order by" or "where" clauses.
> 
> John
>