Saxon

Legacy ID: #4519790 Legacy Poster: warty (warthog2040)

Hi, I'm writing some XQuery scripts to process XML but need to call Java from the scripts. I found some strange behaviour. I'll try to explain it using examples. This code to set the year to 1980 DOESN'T work; it still returns the the current year... It doesn't work in my program (using Saxon8.9B) nor in OxygemXML 8.2 (with default Saxon as the query parser). It does however work in eXist... declare namespace gc = "java:java.util.GregorianCalendar"; let $cal := gc:new() let $y := gc:set($cal, 1, 1980) let $x := gc:get($cal, 1) return $x I experimented in OxygenXML and found that changing the return a little DOES work: declare namespace gc = "java:java.util.GregorianCalendar"; let $cal := gc:new() let $y := gc:set($cal, 1, 1980) let $x := gc:get($cal, 1) return ($y, $x) It seems that the call to set the year to 1980 isn't actually executed unless the return value (even it it's a void) is used in the final result. Some sort of lazy evaluation? Can anyone shed some light on this? Thanks.