Hello,
XQuery is a lovely language and together with BaseX it is very lovely.
But now, for a project that need Python, I find difficulties
understanding the general workflow communicating between BaseX and
Python.
My basic situation boils down to 1) execute a query on BaseX that
returns a list of data 2) analyse every item in the in Python 3) push
the analysis result back in to BaseX.
I have done updates like this solely in XQuery but this time I need the
analysis part done in Python.
Since I seem to only get a list of strings out of a query executed by
the client, is this usecase even possible?
Below is attached my sample running code
Best regards,
Kristian K
```Python
from BaseXClient import BaseXClient
# open a session
session = BaseXClient.Session('localhost', 1984, 'admin', 'admin')
# execute a query that returns a list of entry elements
query = session.query("""
let $list :=
<list>
<entry>
<a>1</a>
<b>2</b>
</entry>
<entry>
<a>1</a>
<b>2</b>
<c>3</c>
</entry>
</list>
let $items :=
for $entry in $list/entry[not(exists(./c))]
return $entry
return $items
"""
)
# process each item of the query
for typecode, item in query.iter():
print(type(item))
print(item)
session.close()
```
This returns simply:
<class 'str'> # the type of returned item is of class 'str'
<entry> # this is the content of the plain text object
<a>1</a>
<b>2</b>
</entry>
