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xsl - using doc() to read in an xml stored within BaseX
by Oliver.Zmorek＠degruyter.com 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

Dear all, currently I'm facing following problem: 1) Saxon9he.jar stored in "lib" folder (to ensure XSLT 2.0) of a local BaseX instance (Windows) 2) Xquery calls a transformation xslt:transform($doc, $xsl) 3) Within this stylesheet I try to address another resource stored in the same database Background: XML contains product information and refers to certain other XML resources like authors, serials etc. I guess I have to options: 1) Refer to document directly (database path) Here I used doc() and referred to the additional documents, e.g. doc('/serials/serial-123.xml'). Unfortunately, the transformation says that the file or directory does not exist. I played a while around with doc() and collection() but could not find a way to make it work. Maybe the reason is that saxon runs outside the database and does not know about the database context. 2) Use rest service Afterwards I tried to use the rest interface. Given the example before I used http://admin:admin@localhost:8984/rest/serials/serial-123.xml (user and pw are admin). Checked that simple with a browser - worked. The transformation instead didn't work - it returned a 401 unauthorized http response. So, my question is how to read in database documents in an XSL stylesheet? And why does my http request does not work? Best, Oliver

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