Hi Jean-Philippe,

we are still hesitant to implement a function that dynamically adds
all imported functions to the static query context. Such an extension
wouldn't allow us anymore to statically determine which of the
functions that are used in the XQuery expression do actually exist,
and which may be imported at runtime by an import-module call.

However, we could add a function that returns a sequence of all
functions declared in a specific module, and which could be browser
for a specific function. I have added this idea (inspired by our team
member Leo) and an example how to use it to GitHub [1].

Do you (and others) think that this solution would be a viable
alternative to the util:import-module function from eXist?
Christian

[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/872

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Christian Grün
<christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jean-Philippe,
>
>> when the evaluated
>> expression yields function items. How should we understand this second
>> limitation? Because modules precisely define functions...
>
> This means that the result of a query may not be a function, as e.g.
> in the following two examples:
>
>   xquery:eval("true#0"),
>   xquery:eval("function() { 1 }")
>
> Hope this helps,
> Christian