29382 2016-01-19 17:26:10 +0000 [XP31] semantics of an 'empty' FunctionBody 2016-01-26 17:32:24 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XPath 3.1 Candidate Recommendation All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 minor --- 1 jmdyck jonathan.robie andrew_coleman public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 124636 0 jmdyck 2016-01-19 17:26:10 +0000 In XQuery 3.1 & XPath 3.1, an InlineFunctionExpr has a FunctionBody, which is an EnclosedExpr, which can be just "{ }". In XQuery, the semantics of this are addressed: [Definition: In an enclosed expression, the optional expression enclosed in curly braces is called the content expression.] If the content expression is omitted, the value of the content expression is (). However, these sentences occur in 3.9 Node Constructors, which does not exist in the XPath spec, and so the semantics are not defined in the XPath spec. (Moreover, in the XQuery spec, it's odd that those sentences are in 3.9 Node Constructors, since EnclosedExprs are not specific to node constructors.) 124717 1 andrew_coleman 2016-01-26 17:32:24 +0000 The WG agreed to make the change suggested here