Hi Fabrice,

 

Nice tip, I can see this working.

 

Thanks.

 

 

My fault,

I missed the final step :

You have to execute the resulting xml.

 

declare variable $my-option as xs:string external;

declare variable $my-value as xs:string external;

 

file:write(‘myScript.bxs’,

….

<commands>

                <set option=”{$my-option}”>{$my-value}</set>

…

</commands>)

 

And then, in the GUI, load the bxs file and run it.

 

If there is a server running, you could try to client:execute() the resulting xml.

I did not find a xquery function that allow you to run a batch.

 

Best regards,

Fabrice

 

 

Hello Fabrice,

 

Thanks, but I’m struggling to understand your example – you’ve got a mixture of xquery and Basex script syntax. Can you give me a slightly larger snippet, as I don’t see how this can work.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Hello Constantine,

 

Facing the same problem, as commands can be written in xml,

I found the following solution useful (as usual thank you Christian), to inject configuration where needed :

 

Declare variable $my-option as xs:string external;

Declare variable $my-value as xs:string external;

….

<commands>

                <set name=”{$my-option}”>{$my-value}</set>

…

</commands>

 

Best regards,

 

Fabrice

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Please let me also clarify, I’m looking for a solution that can be run from the GUI – so I’m not looking for suggestions using shell scripts or Ant which would be easy to implement.

 

Thanks,

C.

 

 

I’m looking for the best way to batch up a series of updating operations into a single pipeline that can be run at once.

 

To give you an idea, we have to create multiple databases, perform a number of updating post-processes on each, before finally pulling certain fields out.

 

I’ve got a lot of parameters that need to externalised somehow – database creation options, location of DTDs, XSDs, Catalogs, and unless I am trying this the wrong way I am finding it quite difficult.

 

I can’t write it all XQuery – I have a mixture of updating and non-updating functions.

 

I can’t get much traction out of the BXS scripting syntax – for example, I can’t seem to create and use variables using this.

 

What do other people out there use to glue these sorts of operations together?

 

TIA,

Constantine

 

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