> Don't feel too bad - you may have been thinking of  XQuery 
> syntax, which 
> uses not-quite-XML constructs such as...
> 
> |      return
>          <book authorCount={ count($authors) }/>
> 
Recent drafts of XQuery are closer to real XML syntax. You now write

   return <book authorCount="{ count($authors) }"/>

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