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David K
David K

Reputation: 213

Using "&" in base-x and xquery update

I am trying to update the text value of a node using xquery. What I have works just fine for numbers and simple text, but I am having issues with special characters.

Usually, when handling xml, I just replace & with & and things work fine. In the case of my updating expression though, I get a "Expecting quote." error.

These works:

replace value of node $v with "testers"
replace value of node $v with "tester's"
replace value of node $v with "tester A and tester B"

These fail:

replace value of node $v with "tester A & tester B"
replace value of node $v with "tester A & tester B"

Ideally, I would also be replacing " with " but I can't do this until I am able to pass the & (or some substitute) via xquery.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 196

Answers (1)

Charles Duffy
Charles Duffy

Reputation: 295619

This does in fact work correctly, as tested with the following document against BaseX 8.2:

declare context item := document { <root><txt>old</txt></root> };

copy $c := /root/txt
modify replace value of node $c with "foo &amp; bar"
return $c

...which correctly yields:

<txt>foo &amp; bar</txt>

Upvotes: 2

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