February 2014 - BaseX-Talk - mailman.uni-konstanz.de

JSON or JSONML output formatting
by Zachary Pride 16 Jul '14

16 Jul '14

Hello, I've been playing with BaseX lately and all-in-all am very impressed. Something I'm wrestling with however is the JSON output options. I've got various web applications that would really be simplified by receiving JSON straight away for the obvious scripting benefits. The JSON method has been giving me a lot of grief, stipulating rules I'm not sure how to follow. right now I have an element that "is typed as string and cannot be nested." I've been able to get JSONML to output but the JSON is this morass of nested Arrays... Attributes seem to get transformed into Objects but elements/tags and their values are pushed into Arrays for some rationale - which I suppose is on purpose. My question is how can I get Objects for simple key:value properties from <tag>value</tag> 's. Are there options I'm not utilizing? Would it be feasible to transform the XML output to some middle form first - setting it up to become Objects, before serializing it to JSON? Thanks! Zach Pride Associate Software Engineer Ultra Electronics, ProLogic 1000 Green River Drive, Ste. 201 Fairmont, WV 26554 zachary.pride(a)ultra-prologic.com Tel: +1 304 333 2680 ext.308 www.ultra-prologic.com This e-mail from Ultra Electronics, ProLogic and any attachments to it are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged or controlled by U.S. export control laws and regulations. No technical data, information or other items provided by Ultra Electronics, ProLogic in connection with this email shall be shared or provided to any foreign persons, entities, or subsidiaries without the expressed written authorization of Ultra Electronic, ProLogic. If you have received it in error please notify the sender and delete it from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. All communications may be subject to interception or monitoring for operational and/or security purposes. Please rely on your own virus checking as the sender cannot accept any liability for any damage arising from any bug or virus infection. This e-mail from Ultra Electronics, ProLogic and any attachments to it are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged or controlled by U.S. export control laws and regulations. No technical data, information or other items provided by Ultra Electronics, ProLogic in connection with this email shall be shared or provided to any foreign persons, entities, or subsidiaries without the expressed written authorization of Ultra Electronic, ProLogic. If you have received it in error please notify the sender and delete it from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. All communications may be subject to interception or monitoring for operational and/or security purposes. Please rely on your own virus checking as the sender cannot accept any liability for any damage arising from any bug or virus infection. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Dynamic Module Loading
by Jean-philippe Magué 19 May '14

19 May '14

Hello, Exist-db has an util:import-module<http://exist-db.org/exist/apps/fundocs/view.html?uri=http://exist-db.org/xq…>function that allows to dynamically import an XQuery module at run time. I haven't found anything equivalent in BaseX. Is that right ? I have also tried to see how to implement such a function directly in Java, but as far as I understand the module parsing process, functions prefix are checked at compile time. That would compromise any attempt to write such a function. Am I right ? Best, Jean-Philippe -- Jean-Philippe Magué Maître de Conférences en Humanités Numériques Responsable de l'Atelier des Humanités Numériques : ahn.ens-lyon.fr Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon +33 (0)4 26 23 38 08 -- "Using computers will therefore lead us to a more profound and systematic knowledge of human expression; in principle, it can help us to be more humanistic than before." Busa, 1980.

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Creating a Basex database directly from tarred XML?
by Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS) 08 Apr '14

08 Apr '14

Hello all, Is there a known workaround for creating a db from tarred XML using the Database -> New menu? I can always untar the tarfile first, but it would be sort-of nice just to point at the tarfile and load. TIA, Constantine ________________________________ Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677, Registered in The Netherlands.

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import in xsd
by Jan Techter 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

Hi, is the validation:xsd() function able to handle the import of other schemata? I tried to do something like <import namespace="http://bibtexml.sf.net/" schemaLocation="bibtexml-handwritten.xsd"/> to use types which are defined in this schema in my own schema. Both schema files are lying next to each other in the same basex database. The validation function doesnt throw an error that the import failed. But rather only states that it can't resolve the types i used from the other schema: Validation failed. "Fatal:src-resolve: Cannot resolve the name 'bibtex:entry' to a(n) 'type definition' component." So it seems like it just ignores the import statement. Best, Jan

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Return file source of a given node?
by Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS) 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hello all, So, I am using Basex to inspect a gargantuan archive of XML records split over thousands of .tar files (thanks Christian for the recent fix allowing me to create a DB from tar input!). In some cases, I would like to know which file, in which tar archive, was the source for a given query result. Imagine that my DB consists of thousands of documents with root element <article>. Is there any way to return the file path of the document that was the source for result of this sort of simple query? /article[@id = '123'] Thanks, Constantine ________________________________ Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Registration No. 33156677, Registered in The Netherlands.

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typo in the BaseXwiki
by Rob Stapper 28 Feb '14

28 Feb '14

Hi, The wiki-documentation of the 'map:new'-command in the map-module ( http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Map_Module#map:new) contains a typo in the third example: map:new -> Examples -> map:new(map:entry(0, "no"), map:entry(1, "yes")) should probably be: map:new((map:entry(0, "no"), map:entry(1, "yes")) Nothing much, but still. Cheers, Rob Stapper --- Dit e-mailbericht bevat geen virussen en malware omdat avast! Antivirus-bescherming actief is. http://www.avast.com

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file:delete() and hidden files on Mac OS
by France Baril 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hi, I need to be able to export content to a clean directory. When I export content to a directory that used to exist, I need to wipe and clean to replace everything with new content. However, I am getting io-errors: Stopped at /Applications/basex/webapp/How2_StaticHTML.xqm, 738/30: [io-error] Path '/.DocumentRevisions-V100' cannot be deleted. Is there anyway from the basex side to allow deletion of hidden files or do I have to disable revisions on my computer, so these files never get created in the first place? The second option seems rather drastic. -- France Baril Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect france.baril(a)architextus.com (514) 572-0341

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Multiple update operations on same target element
by Jérôme Chauveau 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Hi, Under BaseX 772. I have to run 2 update operations in one query (both concern the same target element) - first operation example: *replace node //tei:div[@xml:id="myID"]with <div ns:time='xxx' xml:id="myID">new content</div>* - second operation example:* **replace value of node //tei:div[@xml:id="myID"]/@*:time with "yyy"** * Both work when run separatly, but don't when are in the same query: the second operation is not executed (and no error message is returned) * **replace node //tei:div[@xml:id="myID"]with <div ns:time='xxx' xml:id="myID">new content</div>,** **replace value of node //tei:div[@xml:id="myID"]/@*:time with "yyy"* Any idea? Is it a bug? Regards, Jérôme C.

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different syntax for specifying the axis while applying a function
by Jan Techter 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Dear basex people, I am new to this mailing list. So 'hello' first of all. In my understanding of xquery the following expressions should be equivalent /self::match/string() /string(self::match) But running xquery count((<match>foo</match>, <test>test</test>, <match>bar</match>)/self::match/string()) xquery count((<match>foo</match>, <test>test</test>, <match>bar</match>)/string(self::match)) in basex version 7.7.2 turns out to have different results (2 in the first case, 3 in the second). I think it should be 2 in both cases. This bug was found using functx:get-matches() which doesn't return the expected results in basex. Best regards. Jan

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BaseX 7.8.1: A Bug-Fix Release
by Christian Grün 26 Feb '14

26 Feb '14

Dear all, we have just released a little, new version of BaseX, which fixes various minor shortcoming of the 7.8 edition. This is the list of new features, updates and fixes: ADDED Editor, Ctrl-H: filter by opened file type and selected text XML Parsing: support for TAR & TGZ UPDATED XQuery errors: function not found -> suggest similar one Commands: improved parsing (allow more whitespaces) French translation (thanks to Maud Ingarao!) FIXED XQuery Update: nested transform expressions XQuery: always return boolean when calling doc-available() XQuery: disallow impossible casts before removing variables Binary Module: iterative evaluation of bin:octets() Commands, REPO INSTALL: install packages in same directory CSV/JSON: serialization of underscores Have fun with the new version! Christian BaseX Team

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