March 2022 - BaseX-Talk - mailman.uni-konstanz.de

BaseX for Newbies Tutorial
by Tamara Marnell 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Hello everyone, When I began developing our finding aids website last summer, I was a complete newbie to XML databases. I lacked the basic knowledge needed to understand the documentation, or even how to navigate it. Even Paul Swennenhuis's "BaseX for Dummies" (2014) was too advanced for me to follow. "FLWOR?" "Indexes"? I just want to do a keyword search of some files; why is this so hard?! After extensive Googling, Stack Overflowing, and reading every conversation in this list, I finally got a handle on the basics and completed our website. I've written what I learned in a foundational primer, "BaseX for Newbies," which contains basic definitions of concepts like "client/server architecture" and "modules," XQuery examples using U.S. Library of Congress finding aids, and solutions for problems that tripped me up: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19A5twBhA6OT3YdlcII7fazlwXewUSNkX/view -Tamara -- Tamara Marnell Program Manager, Systems Orbis Cascade Alliance (orbiscascade.org <https://www.orbiscascade.org/>) Pronouns: she/her/hers

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RBaseX-client
by Ben Engbers 25 Mar '22

25 Mar '22

Hi, Version 1.1.1 is finally stable and available at CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/package=RBaseX) Hopefully this blog "https://r-posts.com/rbasex-a-basex-client-written-in-r/" will contribute to more support for BaseX from the R community. Ben Engbers

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Storing maps in BaseX
by Jonathan Robie 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Is there a way to store a map in a database and use it in other queries without recomputing it each time? Jonathan

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BaseX 9.7 • Ukraine Edition
by Christian Grün 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Dear all, Just next to us, millions of people are currently being torn out of their home country, and we desperately hope that the situation in Ukraine will calm down soon. For those of you who are planning to donate money to us in the upcoming weeks, we kindly ask you this time to redirect it to Médecins Sans Frontières or any NGO of your choice. – We are back to provide you with a new and fresh version of BaseX. It comes with a big bunch of advanced performance tweaks and optimizations and some new XQuery features: • Support for xsl:messages via xslt:transform-report: • Support for formatting integers and dates in French • XSD validation: Improved support for XML catalogs • Remove namespaces from elements via util:strip-namespaces For a more comprehensive list of added and updated features, look into our documentation (docs.basex.org) and check out the GitHub issues (github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues) And one more pleasant announcement: Today, our company BaseX GmbH Our celebrates its 10th anniversary! Thanks to all of you who have keeping us busy with challenging projects. Rest assured we’ll be happy to continue to give you advice and support for the upcoming decades. All the best, Your BaseX Team

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Local deployment of a database
by Jonathan Robie 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

We are creating server instances, but we also have users who want to work locally. Ideally, I would like to be able to create an installer that would add BaseX and a set of databases to a user's system. How hard would it be to do that? Jonathan

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GUI syntax highlighting
by marc＠crosseyed.nl 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

The syntax highlighting doesn't change when changing the look and feel in the BaseX GUI (9.6.2). I noticed this also happens in earlier versions. After changing to a dark background this results in blue on black, for instance. This happens with the JTattoo lib, but also GTK under a dark Linux theme. This occurs in Linux, all kinds of distro's, both Debian and Fedora based. Open JDK 11.0.6. In BaseX GUI 8.6.x all is fine, running under the same conditions. Regards, Marc

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Windows, WSL, and BaseX
by Jonathan Robie 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

I installed Windows System for Linux and installed BaseX on it, and also installed BaseX on Windows. Unfortunately, the two do not share databases. Is there a way to make them do so? Or a way to run basexgui from WSL? Or a better question that I should ask if I want to work productively on BaseX under Windows and am more accustomed to developing under Linux? Jonathan

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Anticipating more complex data to follow
by Patrick Durusau 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Greetings! While working on some large but fairly simple data, I encountered BaseX using the underscore "_" as an element name when importing JSON. Not leaving well enough alone for present purposes, I encountered this post about anonymous objects in MarkLogic and how they resolve the problem. https://developer.marklogic.com/recipe/query-array-anonymous-objects/ Is there already a recommended solution for this problem? Or should I wait until I actually encounter it and ask again? Hope everyone is at the start of a great week! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick(a)durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau

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OpenJDK vs. Oracle JDK versus ...
by Jonathan Robie 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

I am setting up a Windows 11 box. Which Java is best for BaseX? Jonathan

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XML Parsing Error: syntax error, Location: http://localhost:8984/rest/oshb?query=count(.), Line Number 1, Column 1:
by Patrick Durusau 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Greetings! What puzzles is the correct count is returned, despite the error message, with the cursor under the first digit. Looking in the response, it appears that "favicon.ico" is missing and I suspect is the cause of the error. But I wanted to confirm that assumption. Thanks! Patrick -- Patrick Durusau patrick(a)durusau.net Technical Advisory Board, OASIS (TAB) Editor, OpenDocument Format TC (OASIS), Project Editor ISO/IEC 26300 Co-Editor, ISO/IEC 13250-1, 13250-5 (Topic Maps) Another Word For It (blog): http://tm.durusau.net Homepage: http://www.durusau.net Twitter: patrickDurusau

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