Re: [basex-talk] Any Way to Create A Database And Commit To It From REST Service?

I took my option (1) and now have my commit hooks ensure that the database exists, which was easy enough to do (just needed to add an addition CHECK command to my existing BaseX command sequence). It just means that the RESTXQ code itself can't ensure that the metadata database is up to date, at

Re: [basex-talk] Any Way to Create A Database And Commit To It From REST Service?

Thanks for the background information. But with XQuery's constraint on when you can do updates that's not possible, at least not in a naïve way--if you have a function that needs to return a result it cannot also do updating (meaning it can't call any updating functions). I understand the

Re: [basex-talk] Any Way to Create A Database And Commit To It From REST Service?

Hello Eliot, You can add the documents directly using the db:create() function, thus being able to create and initialize the database. If you have multiple documents to add it can be done like the following example: db:create('new-database', (some-data/, more-data/), (somedata.xml,

Re: [basex-talk] Any Way to Create A Database And Commit To It From REST Service?

Hi Eliot, additionally to Dirk's hint, I'd like to point you to our DBA RESTXQ code. It contains many examples on how to perform updates exclusively with the BaseX extensions of XQuery. Best, Christian On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 7:38 PM, Eliot Kimber ekim...@contrext.com wrote: In my link