[MarkLogic Dev General] Application (and session) variables???

[Tim Finney]

As it happens, a request for enhancement was submitted yesterday after
discussion over how one might store XML fragments on a per-session
basis.

Best

Tim Finney
Programmer
UVa Press

On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 13:45 -0500, Wyatt wrote:
> Is there such thing as an application level variable in MLS?  Something 
> that can be created when MLS starts and is resident in memory all the 
> time?  I've looked around the documentation and can't anything, am I'm 
> missing something?
> 
> On a side note, I've been using session variables in lieu of application 
> variables and found some inaccuracies in the documentation for 
> xdmp:get-sesssion-field() function...  The documentation says it returns 
> a xs:string, but I believe it returns an item().  When I store an 
> element() with xdmp:set-session-field(), I get an element() from 
> xdmp:get-session-field().  It would also be nice if the default (2nd) 
> parameter of xdmp:get-session-field() would take an item rather than an 
> xs:string.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Wyatt
> 
> 
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