Dear BaseX team, a question concerning the static context used by xquery:eval. It seems to me that the static context is not inherited from the location of the evaluating call. Therefore arises the question how to call user-defined functions within code evaluated by xquery:eval. Please consider this example: Attempt #1:=========================================================== declare namespace f="http://www.foxpath.org/xquery-functions";

declare function f:num2($number) {2 * $number};

let $inlineFunctionText := "function($number) {f:num2($number)}"

let $f := xquery:eval($inlineFunctionText) return $f(1) ===========================================================   Executing this, an error is raised:   [XPST0081] No namespace declared for 'f:num2'. Adding a namespace declaration does not help: Attempt #2:=========================================================== declare namespace f="http://www.foxpath.org/xquery-functions";

declare function f:num2($number) {2 * $number};

let $inlineFunctionText := "declare namespace f='http://www.foxpath.org/xquery-functions'; function($number) {f:num2($number)}"

let $f := xquery:eval($inlineFunctionText) return $f(1) ===========================================================   Now I get this error:   [XPST0017] Unknown function: Q{http://www.foxpath.org/xquery-functions%7Dnum2. The only (?) way out is pass in the function a parameter: Attempt #3:=========================================================== declare namespace f="http://www.foxpath.org/xquery-functions";

declare function f:num2($number) {2 * $number};

let $inlineFunctionText := "declare namespace f='http://www.foxpath.org/xquery-functions'; declare variable $num2 external; function($number) {$num2($number)}"

let $context := map{'num2': f:num2#1} let $f := xquery:eval($inlineFunctionText, $context) return $f(1) ===========================================================Result: 2Ok! Fortunately, the passed in function does inherit its own static context (as it should, per spec), so that it may call other functions themselves not known to the inline function expression: Attempt #4:=========================================================== declare namespace f="http://www.foxpath.org/xquery-functions";

declare function f:num2($number) {2 * $number + f:num3($number)}; declare function f:num3($number) {3 * $number};

let $inlineFunctionText := "declare namespace f='http://www.foxpath.org/xquery-functions'; declare variable $num2 external; function($number) {$num2($number)}"

let $context := map{'num2': f:num2#1} let $f := xquery:eval($inlineFunctionText, $context) return $f(1) ===========================================================Result: 5Okissimo! So my question is whether it is by design or by bug that xquery:eval "forgets" the static context in place where the invocation of xquery:eval occurs. And I emphasize the great practical relevance of the question as it impacts the possibility of using within the evaluated expression user-defined functions.

Cheers,Hans-Jürgen