Hello Kristian,

XQUERY just executes actual XQuery code, so you can simply import the module as you normally would. So something like

  XQUERY import module namespace up = 'http://your.namespace' at 'your-module-location.xqm'; up:updateFunctionA()

should work fine.

Cheers
Dirk

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Von: basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] Im Auftrag von Kristian Kankainen
Gesendet: Freitag, 1. Dezember 2017 17:30
An: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Betreff: [basex-talk] Scripting and modules

Hello,

I need to run several updating queries in sequel on a database and a good candidate for this should be a simple .bxs script. But is there a convenient way to reference functions defined in an external module? I have all functions defined in an external XQuery module and I would like to be able to write the script in such a way, that I use just the names of the allready defined functions. E.g something like this:

# script.bxs
# open the database
OPEN testdb;
# make backup of the initial state
CREATE BACKUP init;
# run all updating queries
XQUERY updateFunctionA();
XQUERY updateFunctionB();
# etc ...
# make a backup of the final state
CREATE BACKUP final;

I guess I can recap my question with just the following: what would be the most convenient way for me to organize this kind of automation of running allready defined module functions?

Thank you,
Kristian K