[basex-talk] Does BaseX used as a command line XQuery processor build a full tree of an input document passed with -i option?

[Martin Honnen]

If I use BaseX (9.2.4) simply as an XQuery 3.1 processor from the
command line with e.g.

basex.bat -i input.xml query.xq

does BaseX then first always parse the input.xml into an XDM tree,
meaning if I use huge input documents that way I can run easily run out
of memory?

Or does that depend on the type of query or some other settings?

I was wondering whether a "tumbling window" based split algorithm like

declare namespace output =
"http://www.w3.org/2010/xslt-xquery-serialization";;

declare option output:method 'xml';
declare option output:indent 'yes';

declare variable $chunk-size as xs:integer external := 500;

for tumbling window $chunk in /*/*
start at $sp when $sp mod $chunk-size = 1
count $p
return
    put(document {
        element { node-name(head($chunk)/..) } {
            $chunk
        }
    }, 'xquery-split-result-' || $p || '.xml')

would run/work without memory problems for huge inputs.