Anything special to think about when using BaseX outside the
database-context?
I have built some solutions using the QueryProcessor for generating
filesystem reports using the supplied modules for calculating file-sizes
and checksums. I hava also built a number of wrappers for calling and
Hi Johan,
Anything special to think about when using BaseX outside the
database-context?
Thanks for the kudos and for describing your use case. It's perfectly
fine to BaseX outside the database context! I'm aware of many
scenarios, in which BaseX is used without databases, or in which the
data
Dear BaseX team,
perhaps you have a recommendation concerning the use of the file module.
The issue at hand is this. The function file:list (like any function in the
file module, per EXPath specification) resolves relative paths against the
current working directory. But the fn:doc function,
Dear Hans-Jürgen,
This is how you can list all files in the directory of your query file:
let $dir := file:parent(static-base-uri())
for $file in file:list($dir)
return $dir || $file
And this is how you can find out the current working directory:
file:parent('.')
Does this help?
Hi Johan,
here comes an example of user experience. For many years I have used XQuery
exclusively with the Saxon processor. I could not imagine that any other
processor might offer comparable reliability, conformance and performance. But
about three years ago I started to use BaseX, too - in
Oh, this greatly helped indeed! I was not aware of file:parent.
I conclude that an application which expects external input for both, fn:doc
and file:list, has the choice between two ways of providing consistent
resolution of relative paths:
(a) always resolve against tool location: when
On a Windows system, file:parent returns a path with backslashes. When
supplying this as second argument to fn:resolve-uri, an error occurs:
resolve-uri('abc.xml',file:parent('.'))
= [FORG0002] URI argument is invalid: C:\user\ptools\.
This should help:
resolve-uri('abc.xml',
I correct myself - probably one should use
file:path-to-uri(file:parent('.'))
rather than replace(file:parent('.'),'\\', '/')
in order to make the result of file:parent('.') usable in fn:resolve-uri.
Come to think of it - maybe a convenience function 'file:current-dir()' (=
Come to think of it - maybe a convenience function 'file:current-dir()' (=
file:parent('.')) would be worthwhile, considering the importance of the
current directory.
True; maybe we could add even two functions...
file:current-dir()
file:base-dir()
...as in many cases it's also
Helpful input! I'll propose it to the EXPath list.
Christian
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Hans-Juergen Rennau hren...@yahoo.de wrote:
This makes very much sense to me, as these two functions deliver exactly the
two alternatives for normalization (current working dir and tool dir).
Dear BaseX team,
I'm using BaseX for my studies with Xavier-Laurent Salvador from Paris13.
I've got a puzzling issue with html:parse.
I'm trying the request below using html:parse in order to get a list of
the urls from a webpage and I'm getting this message error: Ligne 19:
Invalid character
Dear Sophie,
I assume that TagSoup is missing in your BaseX classpath. TagSoup is
responsible for converting HTML pages to XML (see [1] for more
details). By calling html:parser(), you can find out if HTML can be
correctly converted [2].
By the way, the following query is an alternative solution
It was great meeting so many of the BaseX developers.
I especially appreciated all the help with the distinction between
Semmelknödel vs. Serviettenknödel!
Thanks again for a great time in Prague
Lars
National Library of Norway
2014-02-17 18:29 GMT+01:00 Christian Grün
Dear BaseX team,
I am puzzled by the behaviour of fn:doc-available when applied to a zip file:
doc-available('/user/xsd/niem-2.1.zip')
yields this error:
[BXDB0006] Database path '/user/xsd/niem-2.1.zip' yields no documents.
Kind regards,
Hans-Juergen
Hi Hans-Jürgen,
I am puzzled by the behaviour of fn:doc-available when applied to a zip file:
doc-available('/user/xsd/niem-2.1.zip')
yields this error:
[BXDB0006] Database path '/user/xsd/niem-2.1.zip' yields no documents.
I tried to reproduce this behavior; could you please tell me what
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