[xquery-talk] A walk down Sesame St - counting for simpletons

[Michael Sokolov]

Yes, that's true - I stand corrected

On 04/08/2014 12:05 PM, Andrew Welch wrote:
> Happy to be the plonker if I'm wrong but:
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> ($seq)/count(.)
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> will only ever produce a sequence of 1s (or 0 when $seq is empty)...
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> If you are saying otherwise please provide small complete runnable
> sample so I recreate it.  (and please really do provide an actual
> sample of runnable code that really does show it)
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> On 8 April 2014 16:50, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ....but that my dear plonker..... does not return a stream of ones......Oops!
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>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> (collection('myColl')//elem,collection('myColl2')//elem)/count(.)
>>> ^^^ that constructs a sequence of <elem>s, and then supplies each one
>>> to the count() function... so it will just a return a load of 1s.
>>>
>>> Bonney dee doosh, ala quet de mer, rodders.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew Welch
>>> http://andrewjwelch.com
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