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Options for creating database...
by France Baril 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

Hi, I usually create dbs using the gui. I'm now trying to create asb without it to be able to set the updindex and autooptimize options, which I can't find in the GUI. I couldn't figure how to set them out using db:create either, so I switch to command line. Now I'm feeling dumb, I can't find how to set up parsing/indexing options for the command line. I'm looking at: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Command-Line_Options. I found -sindent and -wchop only. What am I missing? Here are all the options that I'd want to set: *let **$options* := *map:merge*(( *map:entry*("CHOP", *false*()), *map:entry*('INDENT', *false*()), *map:entry*('STRIPNS', *false*()), *map:entry*('INTPARSE', *true*()), *map:entry*('DTD', *false*()), *map:entry*('XINCLUDE', *false*()), *map:entry*('UPDINDEX', *true*()), *map:entry*('AUTOOPTIMIZE', *true*()) )) I don't want to set UPDINDEX and AUTOOPTIMIZE in .basex because I only want them to be true() on one of my DBs. Other DBs should remain as is. -- France Baril Architecte documentaire / Documentation architect france.baril(a)architextus.com

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Jobs, locking and doing large updates
by Omar Siam 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Hi list! I was experimenting with the jobs module for the last weeks to speed up updates and to make them fit into less than 6 GB of memory. It does not work the way I expected. * Updating jobs don't seem to run in parallel even if they don't work with and lock the same database. Or do they start much later than I expected? * It seems to me there is an upper limit of jobs that can be queued (about 100?). I automatically started all of the update jobs but some updates did not run. The upside is: I can run my updates with just about 1 GB of memory which is much better for me. I work with dictionary like XML documents. They look like <root> <entry>Contents with further tags</entry> <entry>Contents with further tags</entry> <entry>Contents with further tags</entry> ... a few thousand more ... <entry>Contents with further tags</entry> <entry>Contents with further tags</entry> </root> I add or change larger parts of them and I also need to keep track of changes. So in a separate database there are old versions of entries with time stamps (@dt) like <hist> <entry dt="">Contents with further tags</entry> <entrydt="">Contents with further tags</entry> <entrydt="">Contents with further tags</entry> ... a few thousand more ... <entrydt="">Contents with further tags</entry> <entrydt="">Contents with further tags</entry> </hist> I tried to do everything at once and when I need to update most of my entries (about 30000) I exhaust my memory. So I use the jobs module to do this 100 at a time so the updates list does not grow beyond any reasonable size. Having those 100 as one transaction is good enough for my needs. Then I thought maybe I should use jobs to seprate the two tasks. One async job saves a memory (update) copy of the old entry, the other writes the new one. After some transformations to my XQuery BaseX told me they don't lock the same database or global. I expected the jobs running on different databases to work in parallel. They don't. I don't quite understand why. Also I have a much larger dataset split into a number of databases where it would be quite useful to execute updates in parallel. Am I missing something? Is this perhaps the wrong way to tackle this scaling problem? Best regards Omar Siam

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AUTHMETHOD = Custom
by Dave Day 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Greetings list, In the Basex configuration file, I added AUTHMETHOD = Custom After starting the server, the 1st response I get from the server when I connect to it is the realm:nonce values. In the Basex manual, it states for AUTHMETHOD _Specifies the default authentication method, which will be used by the HTTP server for negotiating__ __credentials. Allowed values are Basic, Digest, and Custom:_ _ With custom authentication, the server will not do any authentication._ Is it possible to connect to Basex server without going thru any authentication? Regards, -- Dave Day

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Every query executed in dba Queries causes a global read lock
by Omar Siam 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Hi list! Just discovered sth. unexpected: Every query executed in dba Queries causes a global read lock. Also other (very simple) queries using RESTXQ which use a DB explicit in the query are executed with a global read lock. Is this intentional? Is this just a side effect? I noticed that internally the code I run is wrapped in an xquery:eval. Maybe this causes this lock? Or does every RESTXQ cause a global read lock? I ran into this because I wanted to execute async code using this interface using the jobs module and then wait for the result. This of course locks up as soon as any access to data in dbs is attempted. Best regards Omar Siam

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Verlosung+Umfrage: Essstörungen-eine Belastung für Freundschaften?
by Freunda＠students.uni-marburg.de 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

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Incorrect result with negative 7-digit number from fn:format-number()
by Andrew Savikas 17 Oct '17

17 Oct '17

Hello, I'm struggling with some odd behavior while trying to format currency amounts. When the number is negative and 7-digits long, the picture string is not working properly. You should (I hope!) be able to replicate the issue in the GUI: format-number(-999999, "$#,##0") *Result:* -$999,999 <-- Expected Result format-number(-9999999, "$#,##0") *Result:* -$9999,999 <-- *Comma is in the wrong place* format-number(-99999999, "$#,##0") *Result:* -$99,999,999 <-- Expected Result Am I missing something here? Thank you!

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404
by Xavier-Laurent SALVADOR 14 Oct '17

14 Oct '17

Hi List, a question I have in mind since a long time: I have a Basex serving multiple project sites behind Nginx Redirections. I wrote a servlet for 404 errors in web.xml: <error-page> <error-code>404</error-code> <location>/error404</location> </error-page> and a function: declare %rest:path("/error{$code}") %output:method("html") But if i try to get "http://www.bla.fr/xzxzxzxzxz", basex answers: "No function found that matches the request." How could I inhibit this behavior ? thanks ! -- Ce message peut contenir des informations réservées exclusivement à son destinataire. Toute diffusion sans autorisation est interdite. Si vous n'en êtes pas le destinataire, merci de prendre contact avec l'expéditeur et de détruire ce message. *This email may contain material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any forwarding without express permission is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies*.

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How to identify the error when create database is unsuccessful
by Dave Day 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Greetings list, I'm getting the following error when I try to create a new database using the Basex gui on windows. "No text allowed before root element." This is the error I get if I set the parsing option to 'use internal XML parser'. If I uncheck that, I get "Content is not allowed in prolog." The file I am using as input does not have a prolog statement. If I look at the .log folder, there is nothing in there. I suspect that the FTP process I used (microsoft ftp command from a dos window) to move the data from an IBM mainframe to my desktop has done something to the file. Isn't there some way to turn on a diagnostic feature to see exactly what the parsing issue is? I don't see anything in the file before the root element using Notepad. Thanks for any help, -- Dave Day

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proc:system ?
by jean-marc Mercier 13 Oct '17

13 Oct '17

Hello BaseX team, I am an extensive user of the proc:system BaseX command (and looking forward for proc:fork !). I am using this command with in-memory arguments, it means that my way of using it is : proc:system("my_exe", $my_arguments_for_exe) $my_arguments_for_exe is an xml node serialized to string by BaseX. As my test are getting more complex, the size of $my_arguments_for_exe are increasing. It seems that we are reaching a limit now, since the compiler refuses to pass arguments : "Stopped at CoDeFi_Interface.xqm, 44/22: [BXPR9999] Cannot run program "C:\Jiheme\scientifique\recherche\CoDeFi\CoDeFi\CoDeFi.exe": CreateProcess error=206, Nom de fichier ou extension trop long " Is there a way to bypass this ? Thank you for your answer, Cheers, Jean-Marc

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