given the following RESTXQ function:

declare

%rest:path("/myrest/{$db}")

%rest:GET

%output:method("xhtml")

%output:omit-xml-declaration("no")

%output:doctype-public("-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN")

%output:doctype-system("http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd")

function page:html($db as xs:string) {

<body>

Database creation date: {db:info("NB")/databaseproperties/timestamp/text()}<br/>

</body>

</html>

};

The website returns "Database creation date: " (without a timestamp)

If I put that into a function:

declare function page:getDBTimestamp($db as xs:string)

{

db:info($db)/databaseproperties/timestamp/text()

};

and call it in the page:

<body>

Database creation date: {page:getDBTimestamp($db)}<br/>

</body>

then I can see the timestamp.

Can somebody explain to my why it makes a difference and why I cannot query the database directly from the RESTXQ function?

Alex