Hi Cerstin,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">However, I am not sure if it is possible at all to mix displaying </blockquote>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">(in the &quot;then&quot; part) and updating (in the &quot;else&quot; part) </blockquote><div><br></div><div>True - that&#39;s actually a limitation of the update specification, wich forbids</div>


<div>mixing updating and non-updating expressions. You can find some information</div><div>on it in our documentation [1] and in the actual XQuery specification [2].</div><div>As a consequence you have to insert the new query element during a</div>

<div>consecutive query.</div><div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If it is possible, I guess I have to include the name of the collection for insertion </blockquote>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">by using db:open? Is it necessary to specify the exact place for insertion (as in </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

my example) as this should be already determined by the condition?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Declaring a variable via the Let expression would help to specify the exact</div><div>location only once ... but of course as you have to insert the node during</div>

<div>a second query it&#39;s not helping here.</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry that I can&#39;t provide you with a better solution ... feel free to ask for more.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div>
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Lukas</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Update#Returning_Results">http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Update#Returning_Results</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-update-10/#id-conditional-expr">http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-update-10/#id-conditional-expr</a></div>

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