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Minor GUI irritation
by Andy Bunce 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

Hi, In the GUI when viewing an open database with many namespaces via database -> properties->information. The properties window is excessively tall, often larger than the screen height. There seems to be extra blank space below the "Resource Properties" section and perhaps the namespaces section that could have a scroll bar if required. db:create("nstest",(1 to 60)!``[<foo xmlns="ns`{.}`" />]``,(1 to 60)!(. || ".xml")) Creates a database that shows the behavior on my screen. Seen with BaseXGUI 10.6 on windows, but I think I also saw it with v9. Regards /Andy [image: image.png]

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Timeframe for supporting fn:load-xquery-module()?
by Andrew Sales 08 Jun '23

08 Jun '23

Hello, The docs say: "The three functions fn:transform, fn:load-xquery-module and fn:collation-key may be added in a future version of BaseX as their implementation might require the use of additional external libraries." Is there a timeframe for this? I'm interested in particular in the load-xquery-module() to enable an implementation of Schematron written in pure XQuery[1] to be portable between engines[2]. Many thanks, Andrew [1] https://github.com/AndrewSales/XQS [2] https://github.com/AndrewSales/XQS/issues/8

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Possible to optimize XPath lookup by string match on element content?
by Eliot Kimber 07 Jun '23

07 Jun '23

In my application I load numerous Oxygen validation report reports, consisting of many <incident> elements, where each incident is associated with a specific input document, captured in a <systemID> element: <incident xmlns=http://www.oxygenxml.com/ns/report> <engine>oXygen</engine> <severity>error</severity> <description>Cannot find definition for key "image.install-store-app-menu-path". Key Scopes:[[bundle-itsm], [reuse], [reuse]]. Keys are gathered from: bundle-itsm-it-service-management.ditamap.</description> <systemID>/Users/eliot.kimber/git-basex/utah/doc/source/reuse/activation/install-store-apps-steps.dita</systemID> <profile>suite-prod</profile> <type>Key reference</type> <location> <start> <line>33</line> <column>26</column> </start> <end> <line>33</line> <column>61</column> </end> <length>35</length> </location> </incident> I need correlate these incidents to the docs as stored in the database, where the match is just on the filename, not any part of the path (although I could match on the part of the path starting with “doc/source”). In my testing, with about 27K of these incident elements, it takes about 60 seconds to build a set of maps where the keys are the filenames and the values are the sequences of <incident> elements that match a given filename, i.e.: let $incidentsByDoc as map(*) := map:merge( let $docNames as xs:string* := $incidents/report:systemID ! string(.) ! relpath:getName(.) => distinct-values() return for $docName in $docNames return map{ $docName : $incidents[report:systemID/text() contains text { '/' || $docName}] } ) I think the only optimization is to save the resulting map as an XML file or (with BaseX 10) just save the map for later use. But I’m curious if there’s some other XPath-level optimization that would make this lookup faster? I’m already using the text index via “contains text”, although I suspect that it’s not really offering an advantage over a simple ends-with(.) check. Thanks, Eliot _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow>

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Trying to apply Query Update 3.0 update/transform operations
by Eliot Kimber 03 Jun '23

03 Jun '23

I found my error: I was passing in a variable from outside the transform/update call, rather than using the context node. This is the correct invocation: return ( $inputMap transform with { local:resolveMaprefs(.) } ,() ) I also successfully applied the transform recursively, so I think I have, despite my best efforts, figured out how do this map resolution as efficiently as possible. Cheers, E. _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow>

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Trying to apply Query Update 3.0 update/transform operations
by Eliot Kimber 03 Jun '23

03 Jun '23

In the context of my attempt to implement DITA map resolution in BaseX, I’m experimenting with using the new XQuery update 3 in-memory updates, which seem to be just what I need. However, my test script fails with: Stopped at /Users/eliot.kimber/git/mirabel/src/main/xquery/resolve-map-test.xqy, 32/9: [XUDY0014] Node was not created by transform expression: <mapref.../>. What subtlety of XQuery update am I missing? The code works as expected through the start if the THEN clause when $refTarget exists (meaning the mapref was resolved to its target document and we’re trying to construct the new nodes. The script is: (: Start of XQuery 😊 import module namespace dutils=http://servicenow.com/xquery/module/now-dita-utils; import module namespace relpath=http://servicenow.com/xquery/module/now-relpath-utils; declare %updating function local:resolveMaprefs($context) { let $maprefs as element()* := $context//mapref[@href][string(@scope) ne 'peer'] let $debug := prof:dump('local:resolveMaprefs(): have ' || count($maprefs) || ' maprefs') return for $mapref in $maprefs let $refTarget as element()? := dutils:resolveReference($mapref/@href) let $debug := (prof:dump('refTarget:'), prof:dump($refTarget)) return if (exists($refTarget)) then let $debug := prof:dump('Got a reference target, attempting to replace original href with it...') let $newNodes as element() := <topicgroup class="+ map/topicref mapgroup-d/topicgroup " base="submap {$refTarget/@base} {$mapref/@base}" xml:base="{relpath:base-uri($refTarget)}" >{ (: $mapref/@* except ($mapref/@href, $mapref/@format, $mapref/@base), $refTarget/@* except ($refTarget/@href, $refTarget/@*:DITAArchVersion, $refTarget/@domains, $refTarget/@base) :) } <topicmeta class="- map/topicmeta "> <navtitle class="- topic/navtitle ">{ $refTarget/*[dutils:class(., 'topic/title')]/node() }</navtitle> </topicmeta> {$refTarget/* except ($refTarget/title, $refTarget/topicmeta)} </topicgroup> return replace node $mapref with $newNodes else () }; let $mapurl as xs:string := 'bundle-devops-enterprise-dev-ops.ditamap' let $inputMap as document-node() := db:open('utah', $mapurl) let $maprefs as element()* := $inputMap//mapref[@href][string(@scope) ne 'peer'] return ( $maprefs, $inputMap update { local:resolveMaprefs(db:open('utah', $mapurl)) } ) (: End of XQuery :) A typical input map would be: <map xml:lang="en-US"> <title>Utah DevOps</title> <mapref href="now-keys-common.ditamap"/> <mapref href="devops-change-velocity.ditamap"/> <mapref href="devops-config.ditamap"/> </map> _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow>

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In XSLT run by Saxon against doc in a database, how to resolve URI references?
by Eliot Kimber 03 Jun '23

03 Jun '23

I’m trying to run an XSLT transform that works from the file system to work when run from BaseX, where the input is a document in a database. The transform needs to resolve URI references from the input source to their targets in the same database. It looks like using base-uri() in XSLT returns a file:/ URL: ["+ [DEBUG] resolveTopicRef(): base-uri($context)="file:///utah/bundle-devops-enterprise-dev-ops.ditamap""] ["+ [DEBUG] df:resolveTopicRef(): context is a topicref."] ["+ [DEBUG] df:resolveTopicRef(): href=""now-keys-common.ditamap"""] ["+ [DEBUG] df:resolveTopicRef(): topicUri is a string, trying to resolve..."] ["+ [DEBUG] $context = ", <mapref href="now-keys-common.ditamap"/>] ["+ [DEBUG] baseuri(context) = file:///utah/bundle-devops-enterprise-dev-ops.ditamap"] ["+ [DEBUG] df:resolveTopicRef(): document at uri ""file:/utah/now-keys-common.ditamap"" is not available, returning empty list"] (This is the output of xslt:transform-report()?messages, which is very nice BTW) So my question is: Is it possible, short of using the BaseX REST API, to have a Saxon-run XSLT access docs from a database? I can easily set the @xml:base attribute on the input document before passing it to Saxon if there was some base URI that would then resolve from the database. I didn’t see anything relevant in the documentation for the XSLT module. In this case the transform is doing DITA map resolution, creating a single result document from a tree of DITA maps by resolving <mapref> elements to their referenced maps and replacing the reference with the referenced element. I haven’t figured out an efficient way to do this directly in XQuery, so I thought I’d apply my existing XSLT transform, but this seems to be a blocker. I’m sure it would work to use the BaseX REST API to access the docs from the XSLT, but that of course requires having a running server and HTTP handler. I was hoping this would just work. Thanks, E. _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twase\itter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow>

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Empty namespace declarations
by Johannes Bauer 23 May '23

23 May '23

Hi, we've recently updated BaseX from 10.5 to 10.6 and it seems there was some change in the namespace declaration behavior. Example: declare function local:list() as element()+ { ( <string>1</string>, <string>2</string>, <string>3</string> ) }; declare function local:to-json() as element() { <map xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions"> <string key="id">id</string> <array key="list">{local:list()}</array> </map> }; local:to-json() Output 10.5: <map xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions"> <string key="id">id</string> <array key="list"> <string>1</string> <string>2</string> <string>3</string> </array> </map> Output 10.6: <map xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions"> <string key="id">id</string> <array key="list"> <string xmlns="">1</string> <string xmlns="">2</string> <string xmlns="">3</string> </array> </map> The empty namespace attributes are added when the elements are created with a function and not directly in the context of the parent element. Was this intended and if yes is there a switch to get the old behavior back? Best Regards Johannes

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Counterintuitive behavior with cast to double
by Shuxin Li 23 May '23

23 May '23

Hi, I'm Shuxin. Recently I came across this test case in which BaseX returned counterintuitive result. From my feelings it seems like a bug but the behavior of Saxon is similar, and therefore is hard for me to confirm. Give XML document <P1 id="1"><A1 id="2">1</A1><A1 id="3">1</A1>1</P1> and XPath query //*[boolean(.) cast as xs:double] Both Saxon and BaseX return the result node set [1, 2]. However, the nodes with id 2 and 3 seems identical to me and is hard to understand why node 2 is selected while 3 is not. If node 2 is deleted from the XML document, result set [1,3] is returned. I'm interested in whether this is intended behavior which I might have limited knowledge of? If it is also of interest for you you may have a look. Thank you very much! Best Regards, Shuxin Li 2023.5.23

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"Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence." error occurred
by 이창우 22 May '23

22 May '23

Hello? I've been testing BaseX for data backup in a Linux environment for a few months. (Some of the contents are in Japanese.) While using it a while ago, suddenly "Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence." An error has occurred. The content of the file used was fine and was the same as before. I opened this file in VI editor and simply saved and exited. And when I ran the program again, it worked normally. - This file is a compressed xml file in gz format. - The program reads this file, takes the necessary parts, and saves them by passing them to BaseX through the PUT Method. - In this part, "Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence." has occurred. This has been happening for a few hours and I haven't taken any action, but now it's working fine. Is there a part that uses BaseX and can explain why this is happening? Or is it a program problem? Can this problem occur using BaseX? Or is it a problem with the program or the environment? I think it's an encoding problem, but I don't know the exact cause. - The program is made in Java. - Some of the contents of reading and transmitting data are as follows. URL url = new URL(urlTemp); conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); conn.setRequestMethod("PUT"); conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/xml"); OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream(); InputStream in = null; in = new GZIPInputStream(new FileInputStream(filePath)); int len = 0; byte[] readBuffer = new byte[1024]; while ((len = in.read(readBuffer)) > 0) { out.write(readBuffer, 0, len); }

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xquery:eval() - handling of &
by Andrew Sales 11 May '23

11 May '23

Hello, The query xquery:eval( 'contains(.,"&")', map{'':<foo><&></foo>} ) results in: [XPST0003] Invalid entity: '&")...'. I can get the expected result if I double-escape the entity: 'contains(.,"&amp;")' or wrap in a call to serialize: serialize('contains(.,"&")') However, both xquery:eval( 'contains(.,"<")', map{'':<foo><&></foo>} ) and xquery:eval( 'contains(.,">")', map{'':<foo><&></foo>} ) return true, as expected. Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Thanks, Andrew

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