Hi Feargal,
I noticed that baseX doesn’t seem to actually load xml files into an xml database, is that right?
If you have a larger number of XML documents, and if the documents need to be processed multiple times, you will usually store them in a database. But it’s generally possible with BaseX to process files without storing them in a database. But I would assume that this is possible with eXist-db as well.
I don’t know who is maintaining the vschart.com web site, but I was wondering which information was misleading?
And what happens when a file is edited/updated?
Do you refer to the original file or a document in the database? If the original file is updated, it will need to be readded to your database.
Does baseX need to be 'told' that it has been updated, in order to add the new data to its indeices? Or does it know there has been an update and automatically reindex?
For more information on indexes in BaseX, I invite you to visit the corresponding article in our documentation [1], in particular the section on updates.
Thanks
Welcome, Christian