Re: [basex-talk] Command line options not working with update operation on input file

Thank you Christian, changing the argument order does help indeed with the whitespace! The documentation is slightly vague about this.

Unfortunately, I still have not found a way to force BaseX NOT to delete my xml declaration with any update operation on a given input file. For example if I use the same operation in Oxygen, not omitting the declaration is the default behaviour in Saxon EE.

But with BaseX, while I could use fn:put() with a map of serialisation parameters in the return statement, this does not help much because I can not use BaseX functions in my script :-( Is changing this (default) outside the scope of an update script not possible?

BTW I noticed some strange behaviour (this is possibly a bug?) - when CHOP=false in the .basex file and -w switch not set, whitespace does not get chopped (expected) - when CHOP=false in the .basex file and -w switch on the command line, whitespace gets chopped (not expected!)

Thanks, Daniel

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Christian Grün [mailto:christian.gruen@gmail.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Dezember 2018 17:41 An: Zimmel, Daniel Cc: BaseX Betreff: Re: [basex-talk] Command line options not working with update operation on input file

Hi Daniel.

The argument order is important in BaseX; you could try the following variant:

basex.bat -u -w -ifile.xml -sindent=no update.xquery

If this doesn’t help, you could append the CHOP=true in your .basex configuration file.

Hope this helps Christian

On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 3:40 PM Zimmel, Daniel D.Zimmel@esvmedien.de wrote:

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Hello,

can anyone give me a hint on the behaviour of the command line options in

BaseX 9.0.2?

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When I try an update operation on a file given with "-i", neither the option "-w"

nor any serialisation option gets evaluated; while the update operation with "-u" is working correctly, my whitespace gets happily chopped.

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    CCL:
    $ basex.bat -ifile.xml -sindent=no -u -w update.xquery

    XQ:
    for $c in doc(document-uri())//element
    return replace value of node $c with "TEST"

A workaround is using fetch:xml() with document-uri(), which does leave any

whitespace intact and does no indentation (no parameters necessary).

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    declare variable $doc := document-uri();
    for $c in fetch:xml($doc)//element
    return replace value of node $c with "TEST"

Unfortunately my requirement is I cannot use specific BaseX-functions in this

specific update script.

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My XML:

<root> <vs> <kennung>Kennung</kennung> <absatz> <fett>eins</fett> </absatz> <absatz id="sgb04_k_para067_p67_a0001_a0001"> Test <fett>fett</fett>

<kursiv>kursiv</kursiv> Text Text.</absatz>

...

</vs> </root>

Thanks, Daniel