Well, shelling out wasn't so hard even on Windows with cygwin tools it's simply
proc:execute('gunzip', $path-to-gzipped-file)
Worked quite transparently as it extracts the files and removes the
.gz file. Would be nice if there's a pure XQuery solution but for now
I'm okay.
Cheers,
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:13 PM, Marc van Grootel
<marc.van.groo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hoped that I could use archive module to also extract gzipped files.
> I need to fetch/sync large XML from a web service that has the option
> of getting files with gzip encoding (to be nice to the web server).
>
> First attempt was to explicitly get the gz file via the URL and then
> treat it like an archive binary (extracting it with the recipe from
> the archive module page). The entries XML I get is empty so I suppose
> that I cannot read .gz
>
> Second attempt was to specify Accept-Encoding = gzip which indeed
> delivers the XML as a binary. But I probably run into the same issue
> when trying to extract.
>
> Is there a way to do the extraction of .gz encoded files without
> having to shell out to some kind of unzipper?
>
> Cheers,
> --Marc
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--Marc
