Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-11 Thread Andrew Welch
I need to convert to text mode by hand: $ basex file.xq|perl -pwle 's/[^]+//g' As all text serialization in Xquery can't deal with the same line concept... unless one hardwires the line separators (0x0A) in via string-join, which doesn't sound much like serialization to me. There are 2 ways

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-11 Thread Christian Grün
fyi: I have added the suggestion [1] to the latest snapshot [2]. feedback is welcome. [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Serialization#Version_7.2 [2] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ ___ On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Christian Grün christian.gr...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread David Lee
There is, but you have to call XQuery natively instead of via the command line -Original Message- From: talk-boun...@x-query.com [mailto:talk-boun...@x-query.com] On Behalf Of jida...@jidanni.org Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 5:42 PM To: t...@x-query.com Cc:

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread jidanni
DL == David Lee d...@calldei.com writes: DL There is, but you have to call XQuery natively instead of via the command line Running the output through a tag stripper, perl -pwle 's/[^]+//g' sounds a 1000 times easier than trying to figure out how to do it whatever is that way you mention.

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread jidanni
All I know is using $ cat file.xq (: Make bus timetable going westbound past Zaokeng :) declare option db:parser html; declare option output:method html; (: etc., not poorly supported text though :) declare function local:d($M){ doc(concat(http://www.fybus.com.tw/data/;, $M)) }; let

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 22:56 +, David Lee wrote: There is, but you have to call XQuery natively instead of via the command line ??!? you can use string-join( your query here, #xa;) or you may be able to use serialization options from the command line. Lia -Original Message-

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread jidanni
LREQ == Liam R E Quin l...@w3.org writes: LREQ On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 22:56 +, David Lee wrote: There is, but you have to call XQuery natively instead of via the command line LREQ ??!? LREQ you can use string-join( your query here, #xa;) Haven't had to make my own newlines since using

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread David Lee
Curious, are you looking for help or just to insult people ? No one is insisting on anything If you actually want help then we need some more information like what processor you are using , what you are trying to achieve and what you've tried and what are the results. If you just want to

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread David Lee
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 22:56 +, David Lee wrote: There is, but you have to call XQuery natively instead of via the command line ??!? My reading was the OP wanted newlines without having to add them in XQuery code. That is beyond XQuery itself so my suggestion of using a native API. But

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 10:14 +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: Haven't had to make my own newlines since using those Control Data computers back in the 80's. But if you insist... XQuery is not really a line-oriented language. I don't agree with you that it should be as easy as seq 1 3 any more

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread jidanni
OK, I submitted https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16311 However as I have a rather hard time expressing myself, perhaps those who know what I am saying could add some detail to the bug. In the rare case the detail is wrong, I will chime in there. Thanks.

Re: [basex-talk] [xquery-talk] say how to get newline working

2012-03-10 Thread jidanni
DL == David Lee d...@calldei.com writes: DL It looks like the CLP of DB2 gives you the behaviour you are asking for DL http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r5/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.db2.luw.xml.doc%2Fdoc%2Fxqrserial.html OK maybe BaseX could do something like that, if that could