I have few module namespace xquery files which were used in multiple files. I want to have the namespaces in one common xquery file and import that file whereever I want to use.
Say for example,
I have process-lib.xqy, util-lib.xqy and query-lib.xqy.
I used to import these in multiple files like following,
import module namespace util = "util" at "util-lib.xqy";
import module namespace process = "process" at "process-lib.xqy";
import module namespace query = "query" at "query-lib.xqy";
Now I tried to use them in one common file named as common-import.xqy and import this file in multiple files.
when I tried this approach,
import module namespace common-import= "common-import" at "common-import.xqy";
It throws exception as prefix util has no namespace binding.
How to achieve this?
This is not possible, at least not in the way you want to do it and rightfully so. The XQuery spec doesn't allow this:
Module imports are not transitive—that is, importing a module provides access only to function and variable declarations contained directly in the imported module. For example, if module A imports module B, and module B imports module C, module A does not have access to the functions and variables declared in module C.
This is a deliberate design decision. If you want to have access in this way you could write a wrapper function for each function you want to access, e.g. in your common-import.xqy file you could have:
declare function common-import:test() {
util:test()
};
But of course this can require a tremendous amount of wrapper functions. I would recommend you stick simply to inserting all required libraries. I see no benefit in doing otherwise.