It's definitely a function of my local .basex settings. If I revert to the default settings (make the basex install dir .basexhome and remove ~/.basex) then the replace succeeds.
Trying to figure out what the setting is that results in the failure. Cheers, E. ————— Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com On 4/12/15, 11:36 AM, "Eliot Kimber" <ekim...@contrext.com> wrote: >Using the basex Zip distribution for both 8.0.3 and 8.1, I'm getting a >failure on REPLACE but not ADD for the same XML data. > >This command succeeds: > >basexclient -c "CHECK dfst_dfst-sample-project_master; OPEN >dfst_dfst-sample-project_master; ADD to dfst/metadata.xml ><dfst_metadata/>" > > >But this command fails > >basexclient -c "CHECK dfst_dfst-sample-project_master; OPEN >dfst_dfst-sample-project_master; REPLACE dfst/metadata.xml ><dfst_metadata/>" > >"..." (Line 1): Premature end of file. > > >This definitely worked in the past, so something must have changed on my >system. > >Obviously, the error message is not very helpful in this case. > >Any idea what the problem might be or how I would diagnose this failure? > >Thanks, > >E. > >————— >Eliot Kimber, Owner >Contrext, LLC >http://contrext.com > > > >
