Re: [basex-talk] apply variable bindings to command scripts

2014-05-25 Thread Christian Grün
Hi Fabrice, due to the ambiguities that would be caused by executing all command scripts as XQuery, we decided to close Issue 929 [1]. However, some good news: if you experience a little with the existing features of BaseX, you will see that command scripts can easily be created via XQuery and exe

Re: [basex-talk] apply variable bindings to command scripts

2014-05-07 Thread Christian Grün
Hi Fabrice, > In order to allow for parameters, do you think one could declare external > variables before the commands element ? > Is it to say that a command file could be any xquery script generateding xml ? Exactly; your command file will be evaluated the same as any other XQuery expression.

Re: [basex-talk] apply variable bindings to command scripts

2014-05-05 Thread Fabrice Etanchaud
-- De : Christian Grün [mailto:christian.gr...@gmail.com] Envoyé : dimanche 4 mai 2014 22:08 À : Fabrice Etanchaud Cc : basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Objet : Re: [basex-talk] apply variable bindings to command scripts Hi Fabrice, I'm still hesitant to introduce more features to the command script

Re: [basex-talk] apply variable bindings to command scripts

2014-05-04 Thread Christian Grün
Hi Fabrice, I'm still hesitant to introduce more features to the command script syntax, as all of them will be BaseX-specific. But we could interpret all input as XQuery and execute the resulting XML as BaseX commands. This way, we could write things like.. { for $n in 1 to 10 return

Re: [basex-talk] apply variable bindings to command scripts

2014-04-14 Thread Christian Grün
Hi Fabrice, I've recorded your feature request in a new issue: https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/929 Christian On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Fabrice Etanchaud wrote: > Dear all, > > > > Currently, in order to obtain tailored command scripts, I found the > following solution : > >

[basex-talk] apply variable bindings to command scripts

2014-04-11 Thread Fabrice Etanchaud
Dear all, Currently, in order to obtain tailored command scripts, I found the following solution : A template test.bxs file : A bash script test.sh: #!/bin/bash DBNAME=de-dpma-u-meta eval "cat <. or Merci ! Best regards, Fabrice