Hi Victor,
as you already observed, the file size of all XML documents stored in the database is 0 bytes. The reason is that the files are not stored in their binary representation, but in an encoded representation, which is faster for querying. The drawback is that this representation does not enable us to efficiently calculate the final byte size.
However, we didn’t encounter problems to retrieve these files with the WebDAV clients we tested by ourselves (e.g. oXygen, Total Commander, native Windows client). It seems that we have to do some more testing with at least the clients you mentioned. While it would be best to display the resulting file size, it will be too expensive in many cases, so we could try to display any other number instead.
Did you already try the native Windows WebDAV client, as described in our documentation [1]?
Best, Christian
[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Webdav ___________________________
2013/9/5 Víctor Villamayor Callejo vvillamayor@niteurope.com:
Dear all,
I would like to access my BaseX database through WebDAV, in order to be able to open, edit and save xml documents with custom made software that only works with files in the filesystem. I tried with WinXP Web Folders, NetDrive and WebDrive clients. I also tried with BaseX 7.7 and 7.6.
My problem is that whenever I save a XML document, after a few seconds it is added (or replaced) to the database, and then it shows 0 bytes on the WebDAV client. Then I can access the document with the BaseX GUI for example, but I cannot double-click it in the client because it opens as an empty file. The exceptions are raw or incorrect xml documents, which are correctly retrieved.
So WebDAV allows me to add, replace, rename, and delete xml documents, but not retrieve them. Is this the expected behaviour, a bug, or a locking matter?
Thank you in advance,
Víctor Villamayor Callejo
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