Code examples for article http://developer.marklogic.com/blog/xpath-punctuation-part-1

ex1.xqy

xdmp:xslt-eval(
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/> 
  </xsl:template>
 
</xsl:stylesheet>,
document{<my-doc/>})

ex2.xqy

(1 to 100)[. mod 2 eq 0]

ex3.xqy

(<foo/>, 5, "a string",<bar>Hello</bar>)[string(.) eq "Hello"]

ex4.xqy

declare variable $doc :=   
  <doc>     
    <msg>Hello</msg>     
    <msg>Good-bye</msg>   
  </doc>;

ex5.xqy

for $msg in $doc/msg return upper-case($msg)

ex6.xqy

$doc/msg/upper-case(.)

ex7.xqy

for $msg in ("Hello","Good-bye") return upper-case($msg)

ex8.xqy

("Hello","Good-bye")/upper-case(.)