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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I'm trying to run an XQuery with 2 external parameters expected as document-node().<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:darkgreen'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:darkgreen'>declare variable</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000096'>$</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>common:annotations as </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#646464'>document-node</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>() external ;<br></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:darkgreen'>declare variable</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'> </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#000096'>$</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>common:patterns as </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#646464'>document-node</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>() external ;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I put in a value in the external parameters in the transformation , it forces a quote around them<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Put in:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> doc('file://…')<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Turns into<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> 'doc(<a href="file:///\\...">file://...</a>)'<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>And I get runtime exceptions about a string being passed where a document-node() is expected.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is there any way to pass document nodes directly (not by name) to XQuery within Oxygen ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----------------------------------------</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>David A. Lee</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Senior Principal Software Engineer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Epocrates, Inc.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:dlee@epocrates.com"><span style='color:blue'>dlee@epocrates.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>812-482-5224<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>