Yes. In addition, if you don't have IDs
in place and elements are all in the same container, you could
maybe use their position. Or a combination of an XPAT selector for
the contianer root and then a sequence of positions for the
elements to be updated.
M.
On 03/06/19 09:46, Michael Seiferle
wrote:
Hi Josh,
I think the most widely used approach would be
addressing items via ID — just as you would in a traditional
database approach — this might involve adding IDs to all
elements.
(as in, not
selectable with a query)
With XPath you can select arbitrary parts of your document,
maybe using XPath expressions would be helpful?
Hope this helps a bit, feel free to ask for more
specific information :)
Best
Michael
Greetings all.
I am curious about how basex supports the idea
of modifying any given (or set of given) elements, say a
user makes a query to select a bunch of elements for
editing and wishes to add an attribute to an arbitrary
subset (as in, not selectable with a query), how do I
reference a particular element for later updating?
Sincerely,
Josh