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| '''Summary'''
|Evaluates {{Code|$query}} as XQuery expression at runtime and returns the resulting items. Database <br/>The evaluated query has its own query context. Returned nodes that are stored in a database will be duplicated, because the result referenced database will be copied and returned insteadclosed after query execution.<br />Variables and context items can be declared via {{Code|$bindings}}. The specified keys must be QNames or strings, the values can be arbitrary item sequences:
* variables specified as QNames will be directly interpreted as variable name.
* variables specified as xs:string may be prefixed with a dollar sign. Namespace can be specified using the [http://www.jclark.com/xml/xmlns.htm Clark Notation].