Pp. 225 (no. 244)
This code sample is adapted from Clifford B. Anderson and Joseph C. Wicentowski, XQuery for Humanists (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2020), 225. Download this code sample in its raw form. View the source on GitHub.
xquery version "3.1";
let $text := "Among other public buildings in a certain town,
which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from
mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name,
there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small:
to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day
and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch
as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this
stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality
whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter."
return
$text