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Returns dynamically named elements:
 
Returns dynamically named elements:
 
<pre class="brush:xquery">
 
<pre class="brush:xquery">
let $name:= "element"
+
let $root := "element"
let $class := "hi"
+
let $value := "hi"
 
let $contents := <foo>Bar!</foo>
 
let $contents := <foo>Bar!</foo>
return element { $name } {
+
return element { $root } {
   attribute { "about" } { $class }, $contents
+
   attribute { "about" } { $value }, $contents
 
}
 
}
 
</pre>
 
</pre>

Revision as of 01:32, 24 January 2011

This page contains code snippets that mainly originate from our basex-talk mailing list.

Computed Elements

Returns dynamically named elements:

let $root := "element"
let $value := "hi"
let $contents := <foo>Bar!</foo>
return element { $root } {
  attribute { "about" } { $value }, $contents
}

The result is an XML fragment with <element> as root node:

<element about="hi">
  <foo>Bar!</foo>
</element>