Hi Christian,

Thnx. You made me a bit worrying there.

Just a thought: shouldn’t util:if not just be part of the regular BaseX syntax? Together with fn:for-each, the fn:fold functions and hof:fold-left1, they represent the group of procesflow-controll-functions.

Best, Rob

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1. Re: BaseX 10.7 and util:if (Christian Gr?n) 2. Debugging XML catalog with BaseX 10.7 (Andy Bunce)

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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:30:47 +0100 From: Christian Gr?n christian.gruen@gmail.com To: Andy Bunce bunce.andy@gmail.com Cc: BaseX basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] BaseX 10.7 and util:if Message-ID: CAP94bnN+BFAv6cRqvRwiDMLSw6hqN7pU12PcgUeN54XF-BwoAw@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hi Andy, hi Rob,

util:if is back again.

Just give me a note if there are other functions in the Utility Module (or in the HOF Module) that you rely on.

Best, Christian

On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 1:15?PM Andy Bunce bunce.andy@gmail.com wrote:

Hi, The documentation for the utility module [1] says certain functions will be removed in version 11 because they will be in XPath 4.0. However, util:if has been removed from the documentation and I think there is no equivalent function in this case. util:if is an alternative syntax for the BaseX Ternary operator [2].

( I have used it because it was easier than trying to get my XQuery parser EBNF to accept $ok ?? 1 !! 0 etc)

Is util:if to be removed?

/Andy [1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Utility_Module#util:if [2] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery_Extensions#Ternary_If