> On 5. May 2018, at 20:09, Marco Randazzo <marco.randa...@iit.it> wrote: > > Hello, > I used baseX gui to create a database from the following test file: > > <main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> > <xi:include href="folder1/file1.xml" /> > <xi:include href="folder2/file1.xml" /> > </main> > > The Result of the baseX gui is correct: > > <main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> > <data xml:base="folder1/file1.xml">5555</data> > <data xml:base="folder2/file1.xml">6666</data> > </main> > > Now, after editing the values, I would like to export the contents of the > database to xml files, recreating the same folders and files (I see this > information stored in the value of xml:base) > However, using the export function available in the GUI, I am able only to > obtain a single file containing the Result shown above. What should I do? > Thank you > Cheers > Marco Randazzo
Hi Marco, the export function in the GUI will, as you have noticed, dump the content of the database as XML to a file. To recreate the file hierarchy with the changed XML data a little bit of XQuery is needed. A small example (just to sketch the idea): ```xquery let $xml := <main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude";> <data xml:base="/tmp/file1.xml">5555</data> <data xml:base="/tmp/file2.xml">6666</data> </main> for $data in $xml/data let $fpath := $data/@xml:base/data() return file:write($fpath, $data) ``` Cheers, Alex
