Ah, you are right & thank you - appending "&method=text" I see the result.
Kind regards,
Hans-Jürgen
Am Mi., 11. Jan. 2023 um 10:34 Uhr schrieb Christian Grün <
christian.gr...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Hans-Jürgen,
>
> > (My understanding is that "database" should be replaced with the name of
> a database.)
>
> Right.
>
> > However, the URL yields an error ("Document is empty").
>
> I guess this is how your browser interprets the result? If you use a
> command-line tool (curl, wget, etc.) or by looking at the source code
> in the browser, you should see the actual response.
>
> > At any rate, the documentation should be explicit about the evaluation
> context of REST calls with parameter "query" or "run". If the resource
> identified by the URL is a single document, the context item is fairly
> obvious. However, in case of a database or a database collection, the
> evaluation context is not obvious.
>
> You mean that it’s not obvious that more than a single item can be
> bound to the context in BaseX, and that this behavior is not 100%
> compliant with the specification, right? This is something indeed
> that’s currently discussed in the qtspecs respository for upcoming
> XQuery 4 features [1].
>
> All the best,
> Christian
>
> [1] https://github.com/qt4cg/qtspecs/issues/129
>
