Saxon

Legacy ID: #3436154 Legacy Poster: David Sewell (dsew)

Platform: Saxon 8.5.1 under OS X Given a file "test.xml" with this content: <?xml version="1.0"?> <foo> <bar xml:id="n123">test</bar> </foo> this XQuery code performs as expected, returning the document node: declare variable $doc := doc("test.xml"); $doc but the following XQuery code declare variable $doc := <foo> <bar xml:id="n123">test</bar> </foo>; $doc returns an error: Error on line 3 column 1 of file:[...URL to my file...]: XQST0082: XQuery static error in #...= <foo> <bar xml:id="n123">#: Value of xml:id must be a valid NCName Failed to compile query Bug? 'n123' is certainly a valid NCName.