In a function intended to be called from the REST interface, I have code whose essential expression is
db:add('my-db', doc('http://example.com/docs/foo.xml'), 'foo.xml')
I was surprised at first that this requires CREATE permission rather than just WRITE permission, but eventually realized that the CREATE is needed not by the db:add() function but by the doc() function.
It's not important for my current needs (I can run the query under a userid with CREATE permissions), but in the interests of knowledge I wonder: Is there a way to load a document from the Web that does not require CREATE permission?
(And before anyone asks: yes, I could PUT the new document, if I could figure out how to do that from PHP, and if performing the necessary sanity checks were as easy in PHP as it is in XQuery. But neither of those is true at the moment; the first may change, but the second is not ever going to change: given the choice, I'd rather do any work possible in XQuery rather than PHP.)
Thanks!
Michael Sperberg-McQueen