Re: [basex-talk] Server-side XQuery scripts understanding their "context"

Hi Luke,

However, when I execute an XQuery I would like it to run on a particular database. Is there anyway to achieve this without passing the database as an argument to the query?

If you address a database in your URL, it will be bound to the context of your query, which can be obtained via a simple dot (.). For example, run the following query to get the number of documents in your 'Test' database:

http://localhost:8984/rest/Test?query=count(.)

I have added another example in our documentation [1]. The given query can also be written to a file and evaluated with 'run'.

Hope this helps, Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/REST#GET_Method