I was trying to use the fn:collectino function today, but I am having trouble understanding the implementation. From past experience, fn:collection($uri) (where $uri points to a document with a list of docs within it) has returned a sequence of all the documents. It appears that BaseX does not implement it this way.

I have a database where I am storing a large number of documents, and I would like to have several collections inside which are subsets of these documents. I need to open these subsets quickly, and I thought fn:collection would allow me to do this. Is there any way to easily open these subsets using fn:collection (or a similar high performance function)? As of right now I am solving the problem by using a for loop to traverse the documents, but this is not fast enough for my needs.

Thanks,

Jeremy