Hi Wouter,

Sounds very useful to me!
Why is it not simply changed in pf:add-doc(), or put in a new function
pf:add-archive()?

Best,  Djoerd.

Wouter Alink schreef:
> Hello devs,
>
> Roberto and I yesterday discussed that it would be useful to be able
> to load (compressed) XML collections directly into MonetDB/XQuery.
> The attached diff provides a new feature for loading multiple XML docs
> directly from tar files.
> Usage: "mclient -lxq -C <colname>" and pass a tarfile via stdin, see
> example below.
>
> My question: is this useful enough to make it into MonetDB? And if so,
> is the current syntax appropriate. Comments are appreciated.
>
> Greetings,
> Wouter
>
>
> $ mkdir xmlfiles
> $ echo "<abc/>" > xmlfiles/aap.xml
> $ echo "<abc/>" > xmlfiles/beer.xml
> $ tar cf xmlfiles.tar xmlfiles
> $ mclient -lxq -C xmlfiles < xmlfiles.tar
> Copying TAR file into collection: 'xmlfiles'
> Name: xmlfiles/beer.xml Length: 7
> Name: xmlfiles/aap.xml Length: 7
> $ echo 'pf:documents("xmlfiles")' | mclient -lxq
> <document updatable="false" url="xmlfiles/aap.xml"
> collection="xmlfiles">xmlfiles/aap.xml</document>,
> <document updatable="false" url="xmlfiles/beer.xml"
> collection="xmlfiles">xmlfiles/beer.xml</document>
> $
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