XQuery
Priscilla Walmsley (pwalmsley@datypic.com)
ISBN: 0596006349
1st edition, , O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Errata
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Chapter 1
- p. 7, Example 1-6. (Online edition only). The second line of the example should not have a "d" at the end:
let $name := $product/named. - p. 8. Second paragraph from bottom. The last sentence be corrected as: The content outside the curly braces, namely the strings "There are " and " products." appear literally in the results, as textual content of the
ulh1 element.
Chapter 3
- p. 34, between-inclusive. The description of the function states that it performs a "value comparison", but it is actually performing a "general comparison".
- p. 38, Table 3-5. There is an extra space in the path expression in the third row of the first column. It should be:
not(doc("catalog.xml")/catalog/product)
Chapter 4
- p. 45, Table 4-4. The last row should read
parent::node()/number(with the added parentheses).
Chapter 6
- p. 79. The end of the first paragraph on page should be changed as "and it
should notcannot be referenced in the let clause itself, as in:". Also, the first sentence of second paragraph should be changed as "This is not illegal, but it is actually declaring a new variable with the same name, so it will have unexpected..."
Chapter 8
- p. 108. The tenth line of code should be changed as follows:
let $actualDiscount := min(($maxDiscount, $newDdiscount))
Chapter 9
- p. 116. The last sentence of the second paragraph on page should start with "This variable, which is
followedpreceded by the keyword at, is... "
Chapter 11
- p. 158. The last heading on the page should read "Casting
tofromxs:stringorxs:untypedAtomic".
Chapter 24
- p. 299. The third line of the first example on the page should be modified as follows:
(matches($prod/name,'^F..*') or matches($prod/name,'^G.*')) - p. 299. The third line of the third example on the page should be modified as follows:
not(matches($prod/name,'^F..*'))
Last updated July 15, 2014