Sorin Ristache wrote: Hi,

MarkLogic support suggested some time ago that Saxon 9 should be used for validating XQuery files that will be executed on a MarkLogic database as MarkLogic tends to implement the XQuery standard in their database engine. I think there are still some differences between the XQuery version of MarkLogic and the XQuery standard but this is the best that you can get.

For what is worth noting, I think there are three XQuery versions available out there: 0.9-ml, 1.0-ml and 1.0 (aka standard XQuery.) For what I've seen on the ML, it seems the *-ml versions (specifics to MarkLogic thus) are used often, even if the query is actually a plain, standard query. Like if the XQuery users where more influenced by the SQL world than by the XML world... I am not sure that could be an issue if using Saxon to validate the queries with a *-ml version, and if it is, if it can be worked around. Hope that helps, -- Florent Georges http://www.fgeorges.org/