XQuery and Server Sides Includes

Question

How can I instruct XQuery to copy these SSI directives (HTML comments) from an XQuery file (.xq) to the output html file.

<!--#set var="tab4" value="true" -->
<!--#include virtual="/common/content/header.shtml" -->

I'm using Saxon and I'm getting the following error:

  Error on line 2 column 2 of _download.xq:
  XPST0003 XQuery syntax error near #...ar="tab4" value="true" --> <!-#:
  Unexpected token "!" in path expression
  Static error(s) in query

Answer 1

XQuery allows you to just insert the comments anywhere you would insert literal elements. Just be aware that they are seen as two separate nodes, and may need a comma in between, and perhaps even parentheses, to make a sequence of them. Depends on where in your code you inserted them.