Actually, i am trying to omit the *namespaces*, not the xml declaration. Sorry for the mistake in my first post, Martin.

So i am looking for something like : *@exclude-result-prefixes* (as found in XSLT 3.0).

And indeed, in BaseX (9.5.1), it seems to be a different behaviour if the xml source is stored in a let variable or in a db. If the xml source is stored in a variable, the exclusion of prefixes is automatic, as in :

declare namespace marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim";

let $xml :=

<marc>   <marc:record xmlns:marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">     <marc:leader>01321nam a22002772a 4500</marc:leader>     <c level="item">       <did>         <unitid type="division">1808001595</unitid>       </did>     </c>   </marc:record> </marc>

for $record in $xml/marc:record[1]

return $record/c

which gives a nice :

<c level="item">   <did>     <unitid type="division">1808001595</unitid>   </did> </c>

Le 25/08/2021 à 16:50, Yann NICOLAS (ABES) a écrit :

Le 25/08/2021 à 15:20, Martin Honnen a écrit :

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Am 25.08.2021 um 15:12 schrieb Yann NICOLAS (ABES):

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Hi all,

I am looking for the equivalent instruction of XSLT attribute @omit-xml-declaration in XQuery.

In the Query prolog you can declare

declare namespace output = "http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";

declare option output:method 'xml'; declare option output:omit-xml-declaration 'yes';

Thanks Martin.

In the user interface, it is working when the xml source is stored in a let variable, but it's not when the xml source is retrieved from a BaseX db.

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declare namespace marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim";

declare namespace output = "http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";

declare option output:method 'xml'; declare option output:omit-xml-declaration 'yes';

for $record in *db:open('marcxml_full')*//marc:record[1]

return $record/c

Le 25/08/2021 à 17:20, Martin Honnen a écrit :

Am 25.08.2021 um 17:16 schrieb Yann NICOLAS (ABES):

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Actually, i am trying to omit the *namespaces*, not the xml declaration. Sorry for the mistake in my first post, Martin.

Did you see my other suggestion in the first answer  to try to change your XQuery code to use

insert node $record/c ! element { node-name() } {  @*, node() } into db:open('uk_parlement_ead')/dsc

Oh, i missed it ! Sorry.

It is working ... at the <c> level :

<c level="item">   <did *xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"*>     <unitid type="division">1808001595</unitid>     <unittitle>Select Committee on Acts regarding Use of Broad Wheels, and Regulations for Preservation of Turnpike Roads and Highways of United Kingdom First Report, Appendix</unittitle>     <unitdate>1808</unitdate>     <physfacet>Vol.II, 135 pp.</physfacet>     <extent>225 pages</extent>     <origination>xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx</origination> <dao>HTTP://parlipapers.proquest.com/parlipapers/docview/t70.d75.1808-001595</dao>   </did>   <controlaccess xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim">     <subject role="sujet">Roads and bridges</subject>     <subject role="sujet">Transport and communication</subject>     <subject role="sujet">Turnpike roads</subject>     <subject role="sujet">Turnpike roads and trusts</subject>   </controlaccess> </c>

Hi Yann,

The common way to do this is as Martin proposed: You can strip namespaces via a recursive function. See [1] for an example.

As this is a frequently asked feature, it would about time to define a mode or built-in function for this purpose in BaseX. An equivalent solution for exclude-result-prefixes could also be proposed for XQuery 4.0 [2]…

Salutations, Christian

[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de/msg13678.htm... [2] https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 5:54 PM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@gmx.de wrote:

Am 25.08.2021 um 17:41 schrieb Yann NICOLAS (ABES):

Did you see my other suggestion in the first answer to try to change your XQuery code to use

insert node $record/c ! element { node-name() } { @*, node() } into db:open('uk_parlement_ead')/dsc

Oh, i missed it ! Sorry.

It is working ... at the <c> level :

<c level="item"> <did xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:marc="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim">

I see, I guess one way would be to write a recursive function you pass that `c` element to that then recreates any element like in the above snippet, only recursively e.g.

declare function local:strip-namespaces($node as node()) as node() { typeswitch($node) case element() return element { node-name($node) } { $node/@*, $node/node()!local:strip-namespaces(.) } default return $node

};

and then use e.g.

insert node $record/c ! local:strip-namespaces(.) into db:open('uk_parlement_ead')/dsc

Hopefully there is an easier way using XQuery update instructions but I am not good enough with them to know.