5985 2008-08-24 02:24:10 +0000 [XQuery 1.1] converting a sequence into a string 2009-11-05 18:39:58 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified XPath / XQuery / XSLT XQuery 3.0 Working drafts All All RESOLVED FIXED needsDrafting P2 minor --- 1 jmdyck jonathan.robie jim.melton mike public-qt-comments oldest_to_newest 21637 0 jmdyck 2008-08-24 02:24:10 +0000 Four sections in the XQuery 1.0 spec: 3.7.1.1 Attributes 3.7.3.2 Computed Attribute Constructors 3.7.3.5 Computed Processing Instruction Constructors 3.7.3.6 Computed Comment Constructors have substantially the same chunk of text, for converting an XDM sequence into a string value: 1. Atomization is applied to the [input], converting it to a sequence of atomic values. 2. If the result of atomization is an empty sequence, the [output] is the zero-length string. Otherwise, each atomic value in the atomized sequence is cast into a string. 3. The individual strings resulting from the previous step are merged into a single string by concatenating them with a single space character between each pair. The resulting string [is the output]. Could these be abstracted into a single concept/process for 1.1? 21640 1 mike 2008-08-24 21:28:07 +0000 For information, XSLT 2.0 collects these up into a a single procedure described at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#constructing-simple-content The XSLT procedure is slightly different from the XQuery procedure, in that it discards zero-length text nodes and merges adjacent text nodes before atomizing. This is largely to ensure that XSLT 2.0 behaves in the same way as 1.0. 22348 2 jonathan.robie 2008-11-03 21:27:31 +0000 This would absolutely be an improvement. 29350 3 jonathan.robie 2009-11-05 18:39:58 +0000 The WG decided to leave this to the discretion of the editor. This change is purely editorial.