Hi Graydon, In the GUI have you tried running the command SET WRITEBACK=true in the command field? In my experience this is needed for XQuery Update expressions to persist.
See https://docs.basex.org/12/Updates#effects. Best, Joe Sent from my iPhone On Sat, May 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM Graydon Saunders <graydon...@fastmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > >
