Hi Gerrit, If you don’t need the canonical path to a file resource on the file system, file:resolve-path may be the better choice. It can be used for both file URIs and local (relative or absolute) paths.
Hope this helps, Christian On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 8:00 AM Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex < gerrit.imsi...@le-tex.de> wrote: > I have a file:// URI that corresponds to a directory that I need to create > (using svn mkdir, therefore file:create-dir() is not an option here) if it > doesn’t exist. Calling file:path-to-native() on it results in a > file:not-found error. Is there a fundamental reason why the file needs to > exist before transforming its URI into the OS-native representation? Using > BaseX 10.7. > > Gerrit >
