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So far I understand that XQuery/XSLT/XPath 3 maps and arrays as functions have no representation in the Python API. Nevertheless I wonder whether a query creating a map and serializing as JSON and using run_query_to_string should not return the JSON serialization of the map. I seem to get None. Is that intended?

One file I have tries

import saxonc

with saxonc.PySaxonProcessor(license=False) as proc:
    print(proc.version)

    xquery_processor = proc.new_xquery_processor()

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

declare option output:method 'json';

map { 'prop1' : 'value 1', 'prop2' : 'value 2' }"""

    xquery_processor.set_property("!method", "json")

    result = xquery_processor.run_query_to_string(query_text = query)

    print("string result: ", result)

    result = xquery_processor.run_query_to_value(query_text = query)

    print("value result: ", result)

but outputs

Saxon/C 1.2.1 running with Saxon-HE 9.9.1.5J from Saxonica
string result:  None
value result:  None

, that is, None even for the run_query_to_string result.

The other tries to solely rely on XQuery's declare option for the serialization method

import saxonc

with saxonc.PySaxonProcessor(license=False) as proc:
    print(proc.version)

    xquery_processor = proc.new_xquery_processor()

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

declare option output:method 'json';

map { 'prop1' : 'value 1', 'prop2' : 'value 2' }"""

    result = xquery_processor.run_query_to_string(query_text = query)

    print("string result: ", result)

    result = xquery_processor.run_query_to_value(query_text = query)

    print("value result: ", result)

and also outputs

Saxon/C 1.2.1 running with Saxon-HE 9.9.1.5J from Saxonica
string result:  None
value result:  None