Hi Graydon,
Could you provide us with a little step-by-step example to reproduce your
scenario?
Thanks in advance,
Christian
Graydon Saunders <graydon...@fastmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 23. Mai 2025,
16:36:
> Hello and happy Friday --
>
> I'm using BaseX 11.9.
>
> I have a processing chain of queries that takes some XHTML documents and
> loads them into a DB. Another query reads that DB, merges the documents,
> and writes the merged version to disk.
>
> From the disk copy, I create a DB of the merged content, and run another
> query to update that. (Changing the image references.)
>
> I then I use another query to write the updated DB back out to disk.
>
> If I create the DB of the merged content with the BaseX GUI "new database"
> dialog, everything works.
>
> If I create the DB of the merged content using
>
> db:create('mergedChapters', file:children($mergedDir), (), map {
> 'ftindex': true(), 'casesens': true(), 'createfilter': '*.html' })
>
> I get a database and I can use db:get() to query it; for example,
>
> db:get('mergedChapters')//*:img
>
> from a GUI editor window gives me the expected result. (I also get the
> expected "you can't do that" error if I make the DB the context DB and
> attempt to run the "load the merged version" query again.)
>
> When I try to run the "update the image references" query (also from a GUI
> editor window, and also using db:get() to access the DB) after creating the
> mergedChapters dB from XQuery, it does NOT work. So far as I can tell, it
> doesn't alter the DB at all.
>
> I'm very sure I'm using the same database name; it's been copied out of
> the update-the-image-references query. I don't see an option to make the db
> changeable in the db:create() options.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> Graydon
>
