[xquery-talk] Rookie XQuery Question: Nested For Loops

[Per Bothner]

Michael Kay wrote:
> declare copy-namespaces no-preserve, inherit;
> <doc>
>    <a>{<b xmlns:p="q"/>}</a>
>    <a><b xmlns:p="q"/></a>
> </doc>

My reading of the formal semantics (which I realize isn't
treated as normative) is that these are equivalent, since:

4.7.1 Direct Element Constructors
Normalization

     [DirElemConstructor]ElementContentUnit
        ==
           [DirElemConstructor]Expr
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