Collection with none and one document inside reports the same count of documents: 1

> create db Test3

Database 'Test3' created in 119.19 ms.

> xquery count(collection('Test3'))

Query executed in 0.43 ms.

> xquery for $doc in collection("Test3") return base-uri($doc)

file:/D:/opt/BaseX/Test3

Query executed in 0.74 ms.

> xquery /

Query executed in 0.33 ms.

> add as xml.xml <root/>

Path 'xml.xml' added in 3.67 ms.

> xquery /

<root/>

Query executed in 1.1 ms.

> xquery count(collection('Test3'))

Query executed in 0.54 ms.

With best regards

Jan

PS: If I should fill it to some bug tracking tool, just let me know where I can find it. Sourceforge?
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