<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="../../make-menu.xsl" type="text/xsl"?><html> <head> <this-is section="configuration" page="configuration-file" subpage="config-xquery"/> <!-- Generated at 2011-12-09T20:47:22.916Z--><title>Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: The <xquery> element</title> <meta name="coverage" content="Worldwide"/> <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright Saxonica Ltd"/> <meta name="title" content="Saxonica: XSLT and XQuery Processing: The <xquery> element"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../../saxondocs.css" type="text/css"/> </head> <body class="main"> <h1>The <xquery> element</h1> <p>The <code>xquery</code> element of the configuration file contains properties specific to XQuery. Remember that these are defaults, they can always be overridden for specific queries. An attribute whose value is set to a zero-length string is ignored, the effect is the same as omitting the attribute.</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <td content="para"> <p> <b>Attribute</b> </p> </td> <td content="para"> <p> <b>Values</b> </p> </td> <td content="para"> <p> <b>Effect</b> </p> </td> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>allowUpdate</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>true|false</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Indicates whether XQuery Update syntax is accepted</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>constructionMode</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>preserve|strip</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Default value for construction mode in the static context</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>defaultElementNamespace</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>A namespace URI</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Default namespace for elements and types</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>defaultFunctionNamespace</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>A namespace URI</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Default namespace for functions</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>emptyLeast</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>true|false</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>True if the empty sequence comes first in sort order</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>inheritNamespaces</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>true|false</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Default value for "inherit namespaces" in the static context</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>moduleUriResolver</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Class that implements the Saxon ModuleURIResolver interface</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Used for locating query modules referenced by "import module"</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>preserveBoundarySpace</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>true|false</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Policy for preserving boundary space within direct element content</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>preserveNamespaces</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>true|false</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Default value for "preserve namespaces" in the static context</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>requiredContextItemType</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>An item type, e.g. document-node()</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>The required type for the context item</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>schemaAware</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>true|false</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>True if the query makes use of schema information</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>staticErrorListener</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Class that implements JAXP ErrorListener</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Receives notification of static errors occurring in a Query</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td content="para"> <p>version</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>1.0|1.1</p> </td> <td content="para"> <p>Indicates whether XQuery 1.1 syntax is accepted</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td> <p align="right"><a class="nav" href="config-xsd.xml">Next</a></p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>