On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Sony Vijay <
sony.vibh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using BaseX 6.5. I am trying to transform a given node using an
> XQuery.
>
> Say, I have an node like so:
> <entry xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
> xmlns:libx="
http://libx.org/xml/libx2">
> <id>1</id>
> <title>Link Amazon By ISBN</title>
> <updated>2010-09-29T18:37:48.592Z</updated>
> <author>
> <name>LibX Team</name>
> <uri>
http://libx.org</uri>
> <email>
libx.org@
gmail.com</email>
> </author>
> <content type="html">Content created by LibX Libapp Builder</content>
> </entry>
> I am trying to send this node to an xquery which is expected to do the
> following actions:
>
> create a copy of this node (so that the actual node in the database does not
> change),
> transform/modify the duplicate copy of the given node
> return the modified duplicate copy of the given node
>
> I would expect the output to be like so:
> <entry xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
> xmlns:libx="
http://libx.org/xml/libx2">
> <id>1</id>
> <title>Link Amazon By ISBN</title>
> <updated>2010-09-29T18:37:48.592Z</updated>
> <author>
> <name>Sony</name>
> <uri>
http://libx.org</uri>
> <email>
libx.org@
gmail.com</email>
> </author>
> <content type="html">Copy of: Content created by LibX Libapp
> Builder</content>
> </entry>
> I tried to perform the non-updating functions using transform and also tried
> to use a pending update list
> (Reference:
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Update#transform). None of this works
> as expected. Could you refer me to a more detailed documentation for
> performing such transform operations on nodes ?
> Thanks,
> Sony
>