[off topic] Other people talk of agility, BaseX does it: BaseXity. Am Sonntag, 26. April 2020, 11:50:24 MESZ hat Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> Folgendes geschrieben: Hi Arjan,
The bug came in when we changed the error codes of db:open for non-existing documents (maybe that already happened with 9.0.x?). With the latest snapshot [1], fn:doc-available works for database documents again. Thanks for the pointer, Christian [1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:40 AM Arjan Loeffen <arjan.loef...@armatiek.nl> wrote: > > It seems that in VERSION 9.3 (November 29, 2019) the doc-available($xml-doc) > seems to be broken; it should return a boolean but throws an exception. > > Has this been fixed recently? Cannot find a reference to such a fix in GIT. > > Arjan > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > Van: Arjan Loeffen <arjan.loef...@armatiek.nl> > Date: za 25 apr. 2020 om 17:55 > Subject: Doc-available() function, behavior? > To: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> > > > Dear Basex People, > > I have this fragment: > > let $xml-doc := 'MyDatabase/bogus-entry.xml' > let $list := if (doc-available($xml-doc)) then doc($xml-doc)/* else () > return $list > > I'd expect BaseX to return the empty sequence when the document is not in the > collection. But Basex returns an error: > > [basex:doc] Database path 'MyDatabase/bogus-entry.xml' yields no documents. > > What am I doing wrong? I thought I was following the example in > https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Databases#XML_Documents nicely... > > Thanks in advance!! > > -- > Arjan Loeffen > Armatiek BV & Armatiek Solutions BV > 06-12918997 > > > -- > Arjan Loeffen > Armatiek BV & Armatiek Solutions BV > 06-12918997