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XQuery String constructor and entity references: bug in SaxonJ?

Added by Martin Honnen over 2 years ago

For the XQuery

declare namespace output = "http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";

declare option output:method 'text';

``[<]``

I would expect the output

<

https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-31/#id-string-constructors says:

Character entities are not expanded in string constructor content. Thus, [&lt;] evaluates to the string "<", not the string "<".

yet Saxon 11 J gives

<

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RE: XQuery String constructor and entity references: bug in SaxonJ? - Added by Martin Honnen over 2 years ago

The quote from the spec got mangled, it is difficult to get that right with markdown, due to the meaning of backticks in markdown and XQuery

RE: XQuery String constructor and entity references: bug in SaxonJ? - Added by Martin Honnen over 2 years ago

Character entities are not expanded in string constructor content. Thus, ``[<]`` evaluates to the string "&lt;", not the string "<".

XQuery String constructor and entity references: bug in SaxonJ? - Added by Norm Tovey-Walsh over 2 years ago

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Looks like. I created https://saxonica.plan.io/issues/5647 to track it.

Be seeing you,
norm

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