Ah, you are right & thank you - appending "&method=text" I see the result.
Kind regards, Hans-Jürgen
Am Mi., 11. Jan. 2023 um 10:34 Uhr schrieb Christian Grün < christian.gruen@gmail.com>:
Hi Hans-Jürgen,
(My understanding is that "database" should be replaced with the name of
a database.)
Right.
However, the URL yields an error ("Document is empty").
I guess this is how your browser interprets the result? If you use a command-line tool (curl, wget, etc.) or by looking at the source code in the browser, you should see the actual response.
At any rate, the documentation should be explicit about the evaluation
context of REST calls with parameter "query" or "run". If the resource identified by the URL is a single document, the context item is fairly obvious. However, in case of a database or a database collection, the evaluation context is not obvious.
You mean that it’s not obvious that more than a single item can be bound to the context in BaseX, and that this behavior is not 100% compliant with the specification, right? This is something indeed that’s currently discussed in the qtspecs respository for upcoming XQuery 4 features [1].
All the best, Christian