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Virtuoso Functions Guide

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Functions Index

unordered

Returns the given sequence in any order.
sequence unordered ( input sequence);
Description

The function takes a sequence, or more typically an expression that evaluates to a sequence, and indicates that the result sequence may be returned in any order.

Parameters
input – The sequence of nodes
Return Types

Sequence

Examples
Finding pairs of books

The following example is from the XQuery standard and it illustrates how to find pairs of books that have different titles but the same set of authors (possibly in a different order).

<bib>
{
   for $book1 in document("bib.xml")/bib/book,
       $book2 in document("bib.xml")/bib/book
   where $book1/title > $book2/title
   and $book1/author = $book2/author
   return
      <book-pair>
         { $book1/title, $book2/title }
      </book-pair>
}
</bib>