Hi Christian --
My employer considers the content in the example confidential, so I'd rather
not put it on the mailing list. Is there an address where I can send it?
Thanks!
Graydon
On Fri, May 23, 2025, at 10:56, Christian Grün wrote:
> 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
