On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:27 AM, Andreas Weiler <andreas.weiler@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

Hi David,

the following query does what you trying to do (i guess):

declare option output:omit-xml-declaration "no";

put(
copy $doc := doc("test.xml")
modify insert node <testnew/> into $doc/root
return $doc, "test2.xml")

Kind regards,
Andreas

On 10.05.2011, at 07:11, David Reichle wrote:

> I'm trying to do an update operation on a file using standalone cmdline basex.
>
> The xml-declaration get printed to stdout instead of to the updated file.
>
> $cat test.xml
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <root>
> <test/>
> </root>
>
> $cat test.xq
> declare option output:omit-xml-declaration "no";
>
> let $root := doc("test.xml")/root
> return insert node <test/> into $root
>
> $basex -u test.xq
>
> $cat test.xml
> <root>
> <test/>
> <test/>
> </root>
>
> The declaration gets removed :<
>

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