Hi all,
I'm using BaseX 8.3.1 and am trying to access a directory structure like so:
declare namespace t = "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"; for $ready in fn:collection("/usr/home/bridger/Documents/foo/bar/?select=*.xml;recurse=yes")/t:TEI let $title := fn:data($ready/t:teiHeader/t:fileDesc/t:titleStmt/t:title) return $title
The structure under bar/ looks something like bar/ 001/ 001.xml 002/ 002.xml 003/ 003.xml ... ... 009/ 009.xml
Does BaseX's fn:collection() allow for recursion into a directory structure like this with the /?select syntax options or should I use a combination of functions from the File Module to move through these directories?
Note: I'm not pulling these files into a database, rather I'm just using BaseX as a query processor.
Thanks for your time. Best, Bridger
Hi Bridger,
fn:collection("/usr/home/bridger/Documents/foo/bar/?select=*.xml;recurse=yes")/t:TEI
As far as I know, the "recurse" option is Saxon-Specific. But by default, all XML files in the directory and its sub-directories will be recursed. Have you tried to use fn:collction as follows?
fn:collection("/usr/home/bridger/Documents/foo/bar/")
Another, more flexible alternative is to use the File Module (which, by the way, is also supported by Saxon):
let $root :="/usr/home/bridger/Documents/foo/bar/" for $file in file:list($root, true(), "*.xml") return fn:doc($root || $file)
Hope this helps, Christian
let $title := fn:data($ready/t:teiHeader/t:fileDesc/t:titleStmt/t:title) return $title
The structure under bar/ looks something like bar/ 001/ 001.xml 002/ 002.xml 003/ 003.xml ... ... 009/ 009.xml
Does BaseX's fn:collection() allow for recursion into a directory structure like this with the /?select syntax options or should I use a combination of functions from the File Module to move through these directories?
Note: I'm not pulling these files into a database, rather I'm just using BaseX as a query processor.
Thanks for your time. Best, Bridger
Hi Christian,
that's perfect, thank you very much. Also, thank you for the File Module example -- beyond some reading I hadn't started to explore its uses.
Cheers, Bridger
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Bridger,
fn:collection("/usr/home/bridger/Documents/foo/bar/?select=*.xml;recurse=yes")/t:TEI
As far as I know, the "recurse" option is Saxon-Specific. But by default, all XML files in the directory and its sub-directories will be recursed. Have you tried to use fn:collction as follows?
fn:collection("/usr/home/bridger/Documents/foo/bar/")
Another, more flexible alternative is to use the File Module (which, by the way, is also supported by Saxon):
let $root :="/usr/home/bridger/Documents/foo/bar/" for $file in file:list($root, true(), "*.xml") return fn:doc($root || $file)
Hope this helps, Christian
let $title := fn:data($ready/t:teiHeader/t:fileDesc/t:titleStmt/t:title) return $title
The structure under bar/ looks something like bar/ 001/ 001.xml 002/ 002.xml 003/ 003.xml ... ... 009/ 009.xml
Does BaseX's fn:collection() allow for recursion into a directory
structure
like this with the /?select syntax options or should I use a combination
of
functions from the File Module to move through these directories?
Note: I'm not pulling these files into a database, rather I'm just using BaseX as a query processor.
Thanks for your time. Best, Bridger
basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
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