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array:sort, array:sort-by, and docs access
by Bridger Dyson-Smith 23 Aug '25

23 Aug '25

Dear Christian and BaseX friends, I hope this email finds you well! I had a question about function signatures: it would seem that there's a typo/issue with the signature (and final example) for array:sort[1,2]. Shouldn't the signature for array:sort read: array:sort( $array as array(*), $collation as xs:string? := fn:default-collation(), $key as fn(item()*) as xs:anyAtomicType* := fn:data#1 ) as item()* (cribbed from the qt4cg.org specs[3])? Unless I'm misreading the signature... in which case, excuse me! Additionally, the current signature for array:sort seems to be in approximate alignment with array:sort-by, which is missing from our lovely BaseX docs' array page. To further my confusion, it looks like the examples from the qt4cg.org array:sort-by[4] signature work generally in my BaseX 12.0. Could that be added, or is the function still waiting in the BaseX wings? :) Best wishes, Bridger [1] https://docs.basex.org/main/Array_Functions#array:sort [2] the example `array:sort( [ 1, 2, 3 ], keys := fn($n) { -$n })` throws an error in BaseX 12.0: [XPST0017] array:sort(array[,collation,key]): Unknown keyword: keys. I'll update the example if I may please have access, otherwise, change `keys` to `key`, please. [3] https://qt4cg.org/specifications/xpath-functions-40/Overview.html#func-arra… [4] https://qt4cg.org/specifications/xpath-functions-40/Overview.html#func-arra…

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Tracking xquery:fork-join()
by Johannes Bauer 13 Aug '25

13 Aug '25

Hi, I have question regarding parallel processing of requests. We use the following (simplified) code to run fulltext searches on multiple databases with xquery:fork-join() in parallel. The performance is tracked and logged with prof:time(). declare function documents:search-dbs($dbs as xs:string*, $query as xs:string) as element()* { let $funcs := for $db in $dbs return function() { documents:search-db($db, $query) } return xquery:fork-join($funcs) }; declare function documents:search-db($db as xs:string, $query as xs:string) as element()* { let $data := prof:time( (: Run fulltext search on database here :) (), 'documents:search-db(' || $db || ') ' ) return $data }; The log output looks like this: 17:58:54.125 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(MD) 127.19 ms 17:58:54.139 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(OEM) 142.39 ms 17:58:54.226 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(CS) 229.55 ms 17:58:54.485 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(TEST) 487.16 ms 17:58:54.989 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(ALL) 991.72 ms 17:58:55.205 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(POC) 1206.7 ms 17:58:56.461 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(RO) 2462.38 ms 17:59:00.964 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(US) 6965.86 ms 17:59:01.424 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(PT) 7425.54 ms 17:59:02.260 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(MI) 8262.05 ms 17:59:04.142 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(XP) 10144.15 ms 17:59:05.300 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(AT) 11301.95 ms 17:59:06.353 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(CT) 12356.84 ms 17:59:12.157 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(MR) 18158.48 ms 17:59:14.042 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(LS) 20043.82 ms 17:59:14.999 SERVER admin TRACE documents:search-db(DA) 21000.18 ms To me it seems that the requests are not done in parallel. The request time is always cumulative. Questions: - Is this just an issue of the prof:time() logging? - Do the searches really run in parallel? - Or are they maybe blocked and serialized by some database lock? Any help to analyse this will be appreciated. Best Regards Johannes

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file:current-dir(), file:path-to-native()
by Hans-Juergen Rennau 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

Dear BaseX people, I noticed a peculiar behaviour of file:current-dir() on a Windows system. file:current-dir()=>C:\program files\Oxygen XML Editor 25\ file:path-to-native(current-dir()=>C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Editor 25\ Note the difference: "Program Files" vs. "programfiles". Is this intended? Would one not expect that any path returned by a file:* function *is* native? (Remark: the difference of case can become very important when constructing relative paths.) Kind regards,Hans-Jürgen : On the system in question, the folder "Program Files" is mapped to "programme" (I do not know the reasons. cu

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Migration einer alten RESTXQ-Anwendung nach BaseX 12.0 - ClassNotFoundException für Servlets
by Günter Dunz-Wolff 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

"Ich migriere eine bestehende Anwendung von einer alten BaseX-Version auf BaseX 12.0." "Mein systemd-Dienst startet den Server, aber die Anwendung schlägt mit einem 503-Fehler fehl." "Das Log zeigt java.lang.ClassNotFoundException für org.basex.http.rest.RestServlet und org.basex.http.restxq.RestXqServlet." Fügen Sie den Inhalt Ihrer web.xml bei. Frage: "Wie lauten die korrekten Klassennamen und die korrekte web.xml-Konfiguration, um REST und RESTXQ in BaseX 12.0 zu aktivieren?"

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validate:xsd-report - resolving imports
by Hans-Juergen Rennau 08 Aug '25

08 Aug '25

Dear BaseX people, using function 'validate:xsd-report' I notice a surprising behaviour: - if supplying the XSD via URI, it works as expected- if supplying the XSD as node, the imports cannot be resolved Is this a known behaviour and intended? In case it is not, see PS for simple code reproducing the behaviour. Kind regards,Hans-Jürgen PS:(1) doc.xml<doc b:att="99" xmlns:b="http://basex.org"/> (2) schema1.xsd<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:b="http://basex.org" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:import namespace="http://basex.org" schemaLocation="schema2.xsd"/> <xs:element name="doc"> <xs:complexType> <xs:attribute ref="b:att"/> </xs:complexType> </xs:element></xs:schema> (3) schema2.xsd<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" targetNamespace="http://basex.org" elementFormDefault="qualified"> <xs:attribute name="att" type="xs:integer"/></xs:schema> (4) validate.xqvalidate:xsd-report('doc.xml', 'schema1.xsd'),'===',validate:xsd-report('doc.xml', doc('schema1.xsd'))

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Add namespace bindings via copy/modify/return
by Hans-Juergen Rennau 05 Aug '25

05 Aug '25

Dear BaseX people, I cannot use copy/modify/return in order to add a namespacing: let $doc := <doc><a/></doc>return copy $doc_ := $doc modify insert node namespace xyz {'https://basex.org/ns'} into $doc_ return $doc_ =><doc> <a/></doc> Is this a bug? Kind regards,Hans-Jürgen

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Websocket configuration Basex 12
by Andy Bunce 04 Aug '25

04 Aug '25

Hi, I would like to increase the websocket message length from the default of 64 KB. The websocket documentation implies this can be done via web.xml [1] However, while searching for the syntax I came across the suggestion it is different with the Jetty version 12 API [2] The Jetty docs have this example [3] // Configure the ServerContainer. container.setDefaultMaxTextMessageBufferSize(128 * 1024); but my quick code search of the BaseX source found nothing similar. Is it possible to configure the webSocket MaxTextMessageBufferSize in BaseX 12.0? /Andy [1] https://docs.basex.org/main/WebSockets#configuration [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79610426/setting-the-max-buffer-size-fo… [3] https://jetty.org/docs/jetty/12/programming-guide/server/websocket.html#sta…

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Re: BaseX version, installation recommendations
by Martin Honnen 23 Jul '25

23 Jul '25

On 23/07/2025 22:49, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 23/07/25, Martin Honnen via BaseX-Talk (basex-talk(a)mailman.uni-konstanz.de) wrote: >> On 23/07/2025 18:42, Graydon Saunders wrote: >>> The zip package from (currently) >>> https://files.basex.org/releases/12.0/BaseX120.zip >>> unpacks and you're basically done. > ... > >>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025, at 12:06, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: >>>> I may be working soon on a commercial server supporting XQuery 3.1+ >>>> with its own proprietary extensions, and XSLT 2.0. >>>> >>>> Would basex 12 be the best match for these protocol versions (except >>>> of the proprietary components, of course)? I'm most interesting in >>>> working in an iterative fashion on the command line, as I'm used to >>>> doing with vim and psql (the postgresql interactive terminal). >> If you want XSLT 2.0 with BaseX, you additionally need to add Saxon HE >> that the currently supported versions 12 and 11 of Saxon are really XSLT 3.0 >> processors, not XSLT 2.0. > Thank you for the clarification about XSLT 3.0, Martin and Graydon. > > I've installed the latest basex (BaseX 12.1) and put Saxon-HE.jar in the lib folder. > > The example from page 116 of "XSLT, 2nd Edition" by Doug Tidwell which has an XSLT 2.0 example with the use of `separator` for <xsl:value-of>. > > Running > > saxon -s:cars.xml -xsl:cars.xsl -o:/tmp/o.xml > > works fine (where "saxon" means `java -jar /usr/share/java/Saxon-HE.jar $@`). > > Whereas: > > basex -o /tmp/o.xml "xslt:transform('cars.xml', 'cars.xsl')" > > Fails with: > > Stopped at <path>/basex/, 1/15: > [FODC0002] "" (Line 1): Content is not allowed in prolog. > > I assume I need to do something to fix the install path of the Saxon-HE.jar file. > > At the risk of trying everyone's patience further, further advice would be helpful. > I am afraid, somewhere along the postings, I messed the location up, I have looked at my BaseX 12 installation and it has a "lib" folder which has a "custom" sub folder in which I have the Saxon HE jar saxon-he-12.8.jar. That "custom" subfolder has another "lib" sub folder in which I have the libraries Saxon depends on, namely xmlresolver-5.3.3.jar, xmlresolver-5.3.3-data.jar and jline-2.14.6.jar (this lib folder with the xml resolver and jline jars is part of the Saxon HE 12 download you find on Github e.g. https://github.com/Saxonica/Saxon-HE/releases/download/SaxonHE-12-8/SaxonHE…). A minimal command line I am able to run (it is Windows Powershell) is e.g. C:\Users\marti\.jdks\temurin-17.0.15\bin\java.exe -cp '.\BaseX.jar;.\lib\custom\saxon-he-12.8.jar' org.basex.BaseX "xslt:transform('sample1.xml', 'sheet1.xsl')" I hope that gets you up and running.

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command line xsl transformation
by Rory Campbell-Lange 23 Jul '25

23 Jul '25

Hi -- beginner here. I've installed basex via apt on Debian. ii basex 10.5-1 all XML database and XPath/XQuery processor I've successfully made and interrogated a database and made a few basic xquery commands from the command line. I'm hoping to use basex for xsl transformations from the command line so that I can work rapidly on iterating towards the transformation I'm trying to achieve. Specifically, I'm aiming to transform an XML document using an XSL document to produce an HTML document. I've tried the following, plus other variants: basex -W -i input.xml -o out.html transform.xsl However the resulting file at out.html is simply the transform.xsl file. I'd be grateful for advice. Many thanks, Rory

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BaseX version, installation recommendations
by Rory Campbell-Lange 23 Jul '25

23 Jul '25

Dear List I may be working soon on a commercial server supporting XQuery 3.1+ with its own proprietary extensions, and XSLT 2.0. Would basex 12 be the best match for these protocol versions (except of the proprietary components, of course)? I'm most interesting in working in an iterative fashion on the command line, as I'm used to doing with vim and psql (the postgresql interactive terminal). If basex 12 is recommended, any pointers to getting this running on Debian would be gratefully received. Unfortunately Debian testing (https://packages.debian.org/sid/basex) still points to basex 10.5. I'm not familiar with Java installation requirements. Thank you for the project, which looks excellent. Many thanks, Rory

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