Re: [basex-talk] Example xquery needed to write output to an local xml file

Hi Graydon On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:41 AM Graydon Saunders <graydonish@gmail.com> wrote:

You maybe don't want to start by writing to a file. You want to separate "did the query produce something sensical" and "does the file write do what I expect" as sources of error so you can't try to debug the wrong thing for a few hours.

This is a great point - thanks for the reminder!

return (: file:write($output || $filename, :) local:process-data($data) (: ) :)

can be a remarkably useful construct until you like what you're seeing. The BaseX GUI very sensibly truncates the output so you can't crush it.

And again!

-- Graydon

Cheers,

Bridger