Take a look at https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands#Command_Scripts
To my knowledge, this is the way to do it. Regards Johan On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 4:53 PM Graydon Saunders <graydon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello -- > > So I've got a pattern where I want to: > > 1. perform some processing using proc:execute() on a directory tree of XML > files (easy) > 2. load the result of the processing (a parallel structure tree of XML > files) into a new db > (in principle, easy; db:create() does this) > 3. extract information from the newly created db and write that to a file > (easy) > 4. use proc:execute() to run different processing on the file written in > step 3 (easy, I think) > 5. load the result (thankfully a single file) and process it with a query > (easy, I can stuff that in a function) > > Ideally, this winds up as something invoked from a single query file as a > sequence of functions because its eventual fate is to be part of an > automated test that would ideally be a "run this one thing, look at the > boolean result". > > I hang up on step 2; so far as I can tell, there isn't a way to say "go > create a database and then make it usable to these other modules that are > guaranteed not to happen until db:create() has completed" but this seems > like such a common thing to want to do that I feel like I must be missing > something. > > Thanks! > Graydon >
