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Catalog Resolution Under Windows
by Eliot Kimber 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

I'm trying to make BaseX work under Windows 7 and I don't seem to be able to get catalog resolution to work. (I'm doing a workshop in Japan and the classroom only has 32-bit Windows machines available--since Docker requires 64-bit Windows I'm having to scramble to make the same code work directly under Windows 7 32-bit--ugh.) I'm using BaseX 8.4.1 with Java 8 (the Java supplied with the 32-bit version of oXygenXML). In my .basex file I have these entries: CATFILE = C:/workspace/DITA-OT2.x/catalog-dita.xml" DTD = true SKIPCORRUPT = true CHOP = false Using the DBA Web app I can see that the CATFILE property is set to that value, DTD is checked, CHOP is unchecked, and SKIPCORRUPT is checked, so my settings are clearly being used. However, if I create a database and use the DBA app to load a document that uses a DTD mapped by the catalog (e.g., a DITA document), load fails with a "Can't resolve DTD" message. The document is valid according to oXygen (and it's the same catalog--this is the OT oXygen is using) and of course my OS X and Docker-based versions of the same setup work fine, so it looks like a Windows-specific issue. Is there any known issue with catalog resolution under Windows? Is there anything I can do to try to debug the problem? Thanks, Eliot ---- Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com

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Standalone RUN for .bxs file not working in version 8.4
by Amanda Galtman 21 Mar '16

21 Mar '16

Hi, I'm unable to use RUN in standalone mode in BaseX 8.4, including the latest downloadable snapshot dated yesterday. The same thing in BaseX 8.3 works fine. java -cp BaseX842-20160310.184258.jar org.basex.BaseX C:/Users/username/.basex: writing new configuration file. BaseX 8.4.2 beta 9b9f74a [Standalone] Try 'help' to get more information. > RUN blah.bxs Stopped at ., 1/20: [XPST0003] Incomplete expression. The reference to "1/20" comes up no matter which .bxs file I try to run, even if line 1 is a comment. Did I miss a deliberate change in configuration or syntax? Thanks, Amanda

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Re: [basex-talk] BaseX-Talk Digest, Vol 75, Issue 28
by Christophe Marchand 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

So, let's try it ! Le 17/03/2016 14:30, basex-talk-request(a)mailman.uni-konstanz.de a écrit : > Hello Christophe, > > that should be absolutely fine. > > Cheers >

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Sharing a read-only database between multiple BaseX instances
by Christophe Marchand 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

Hello, I have a collection which is read-only. This collection is used as source for multiple XQuery update operations, operations which do not modify this read-only collection. For performance questions, I want to parallelize my XQuery operations. So I want to have multiple BaseX instances - say 8 - sharing exactly the same read-only collection, each instance performing a XQuery update on a small amount of data As this collection is read-only, may I physically copy files (after import) from an instance to another, if instances are on different hosts, and may I symlink collection files from an instance to another if instances are on the same hosts ? When I import data in the "read-only" collection to initialize it, only one instance is started... Best, Christophe -- Christophe MARCHAND Consultant Formateur cmarchand(a)oxiane.com <mailto:cmarchand@oxiane.com> LD : (+33)1 84 19 19 76 GSM : +33 (0)6 23 41 09 17 oxiane 98, avenue du Général Leclerc 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt Standard : (+33)1 55 60 76 72 Fax : (+33)1 55 60 76 73 www.oxiane.com <http://www.oxiane.com> Notre catalogue formations 2016 Notre catalogue formations 2015 <http://www.oxiane.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/OXiane_Catalogue_2016.pdf>

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Repository. Verwendung von Modulen.
by Oleg Duvanayev 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

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Re: [basex-talk] Catalog Resolution Under Windows
by Eliot Kimber 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

I tried some more experiments. I used the BaseX GUI as follows: 1. Created a new database and used the GUI to select the catalog file directly. 2. Used the add function from the New Database dialog to load a directory, selecting all the .xml, .dita, and .ditamap files. All the DITA files were skipped. I did the same test using 8.4.1 under OS X but against the same source files and catalog and it worked fine. So this seems to be a general issue with catalog resolution under Windows. Cheers, E. ---- Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com On 3/12/16, 6:11 PM, "Eliot Kimber" <basex-talk-bounces(a)mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of ekimber(a)contrext.com> wrote: >I'm trying to make BaseX work under Windows 7 and I don't seem to be able >to get catalog resolution to work. (I'm doing a workshop in Japan and the >classroom only has 32-bit Windows machines available--since Docker >requires 64-bit Windows I'm having to scramble to make the same code work >directly under Windows 7 32-bit--ugh.) > >I'm using BaseX 8.4.1 with Java 8 (the Java supplied with the 32-bit >version of oXygenXML). > >In my .basex file I have these entries: > >CATFILE = C:/workspace/DITA-OT2.x/catalog-dita.xml" >DTD = true >SKIPCORRUPT = true >CHOP = false > > >Using the DBA Web app I can see that the CATFILE property is set to that >value, DTD is checked, CHOP is unchecked, and SKIPCORRUPT is checked, so >my settings are clearly being used. > >However, if I create a database and use the DBA app to load a document >that uses a DTD mapped by the catalog (e.g., a DITA document), load fails >with a "Can't resolve DTD" message. > >The document is valid according to oXygen (and it's the same catalog--this >is the OT oXygen is using) and of course my OS X and Docker-based versions >of the same setup work fine, so it looks like a Windows-specific issue. > >Is there any known issue with catalog resolution under Windows? Is there >anything I can do to try to debug the problem? > >Thanks, > >Eliot > >---- >Eliot Kimber, Owner >Contrext, LLC >http://contrext.com > > > >

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How to check an element's type against an XSD simple type
by Ulrike Schaper - SideStep Business Solutions GmbH 12 Mar '16

12 Mar '16

Hi everybody, I'm trying to compose XML documents for SEPA transactions via BaseX. I would like to check certain data against the corresponding schema before putting them into the document, e.g. BIC identifiers. In the xsd, there's a simpleType definition for BICs: <xs:simpleType name="BICIdentifier"> <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> <xs:pattern value="[A-Z]{6,6}[A-Z2-9][A-NP-Z0-9]([A-Z0-9]{3,3}){0,1}"/> </xs:restriction> </xs:simpleType> I hoped it would be as simple as declare default element namespace "urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:pain.001.003.03"; let $node := <BIC>GEN0DEM1MPW</BIC> return if(string($node) instance of BICIdentifier) then (true() (: process... :)) else (false() (: report error :)) But, as I learned now, BaseX doesn't support import of schemas. Thus, I receive the error message "Unknown type: Q{urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:pain.001.003.03 }BICIdentifier". Is there some workaround (other than rebuilding regular expressions from schema to xquery)? Best regards, Ulrike.

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Using SaxonEE 9.7 XQuery Processor with BaseX
by Jörn Goeke 11 Mar '16

11 Mar '16

Hello together, I just recently startet using BaseX in one of my Projects and since I was developing on the GUI of BaseX I had no Problems with anything. Unfortunately, for reasons, I need to use the Saxon Processor to Query my BaseX DB. I tried different approaches, but, everything endet up with the following error message: XPST0017: Saxon does not allow external function to be declared The query I tried looks as followed: xquery version "3.0"; declare namespace vm = "http://www.viamedici.de"; import module namespace db = "http://basex.org/modules/db" at "test/db.xqm"; (: Retrieve documents from database :) db:open("hades")//template Since I could not get usable information from google I hope some of you guys can help me. Thanks a lot, Jörn Jörn Uli Goeke Projektleiter / Projektentwickler Viamedici Software GmbH Hertzstr. 14 D-76275 Ettlingen Germany Phone: +49(0)7243/9498-36 Fax: +49(0)7243/9498-99 e-mail: j.goeke(a)viamedici.de URL: www.viamedici.de<http://www.viamedici.de> HRB 362615, Amtsgericht Mannheim Geschaeftsfuehrer: Juergen Mueller

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write permission and create permission
by C. M. Sperberg-McQueen 10 Mar '16

10 Mar '16

In a function intended to be called from the REST interface, I have code whose essential expression is db:add('my-db', doc('http://example.com/docs/foo.xml'), 'foo.xml') I was surprised at first that this requires CREATE permission rather than just WRITE permission, but eventually realized that the CREATE is needed not by the db:add() function but by the doc() function. It's not important for my current needs (I can run the query under a userid with CREATE permissions), but in the interests of knowledge I wonder: Is there a way to load a document from the Web that does not require CREATE permission? (And before anyone asks: yes, I could PUT the new document, if I could figure out how to do that from PHP, and if performing the necessary sanity checks were as easy in PHP as it is in XQuery. But neither of those is true at the moment; the first may change, but the second is not ever going to change: given the choice, I'd rather do any work possible in XQuery rather than PHP.) Thanks! Michael Sperberg-McQueen -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************

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Query plans - feature request
by Hans-Juergen Rennau 09 Mar '16

09 Mar '16

Dear BaseX team, the query plans produced by xquery:parse-uri represent the state reached after resolving all imports. In particular, if module A imports module B and B contains a function F called by A, then function F is contained in the plan of module A, although the definition of function F is contained by module B, not by module A. And I think there is not way of finding out that fact. I understand that the behaviour is exactly what is required for compiling and executing the plans, but for purposes of analysis it would be great if it were possible to determine whether module A CONTAINS OR IMPORTS the definition of function F. A boolean flag (e.g. "<StaticFunc imported='true' ...") would suffice! Then, given a pool of modules, one could determine where to find what. As a hilarious fact, this feature (those boolean flags) would be very helpful in order to repair applications run with (or also with) the Saxon processor and "broken" by recent changes of Saxon: formerly, Saxon was tolerant about calling functions contained by *indirectly* imported modules (e.g. module A imports B, B imports C, A was allowed to call functions in C). This is now changed (A must import C explicitly), and repair of large-scale application would be greatly facilitated if the query plans could be evaluated as sketched. In fact, one could easily produce a report telling exactly which imports to add to which modules. So BaseX could lend a helping hand to Saxon users. Apart from that, of course, the feature would generally be great for supporting applications of code analysis. Cheers,Hans-Jürgen

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