Re: [basex-talk] Implementation of fn:collection

Hi Jeremy,

Is there a method to open a subset of documents (not distinguishable by path) in the database with performance similar to calling db:open($db_name)?

Is there any criteria regarding the documents you want to open? If you simply want to choose the first 10 documents, you could try a position filter: collection("db")[position() = 1 to 10] Talking about performance: fn:collection and db:open are based on the same code, so there shouldn’t be any difference. Hope this helps, Christian