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From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

Primary expressions are the basic primitives of the language. They include literals, variable references, context item expressions, constructors, and function calls. A primary expression may also be created by enclosing any expression in parentheses, which is sometimes helpful in controlling the precedence of operators.
primary expressions

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

Primary expressions are the basic primitives of the language. They include literals, variable references, context item expressions, and function calls. A primary expression may also be created by enclosing any expression in parentheses, which is sometimes helpful in controlling the precedence of operators.

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