Oops.didn't look at it closely enough. Of course it changes all the nodes. It's also fast so it will work perfectly. Thanks! <mailto:david@leighweb.com> DavidEmailSig From: David Leigh [mailto:david@leighweb.com] Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 09:28 PM To: 'basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de' Subject: [basex-talk] XML element case sensitivity Jens, Could I do this right after database creation and it would actually CHANGE the node names so that my queries could all still references the lower case node names? (that's what it looks like it's doing but I just wanted to confirm it). I need to do it for 3 node names, can it be done in one "for" loop? I don't mind taking the hit at database creation time as opposed to query time. Thanks! David *********************************************************************** Hi David, for preprocessing you could use something like for $i in //* return rename node $i as lower-case(name($i)) to rename all nodes to their lower-case equivalent. If you only want to process lyrics-nodes of all variations, insert Dirk's predicate to `//*`. Sadly the full-text index which offers case insensitivity doesn't include tag names, so you can't use this either. Kind regards from Lake Constance, Germany, Jens -- Jens Erat [phone]: tel:+49-151-56961126 [mail]: mailto:email at jenserat.de <https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk> [jabber]: xmpp:jabber at jenserat.de <https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk> [web]: http://www.jenserat.de PGP: 350E D9B6 9ADC 2DED F5F2 8549 CBC2 613C D745 722B Am 16.06.2012 um 16:46 schrieb Dirk Kirsten:

There are functions like lower-case() and upper-case(). So you could do something like this

//*[lower-case(name(.)) = "lyrics"]

However, I guess it could result in a decreased performance. Therefore it might be reasonable to do this in some kind of preprocessing, if it is relevant for your use-case.

cheers, Dirk

On 06/16/2012 03:51 PM, David Leigh wrote:

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I've been searching in the BaseX docs online and can't seem to find reference to what I'm seeing. It may be common knowledge in the XML community but I'm not highly skilled in XML.

Here's my issue:

I have XML files that I'm loading into my database where there is inconsistency in the case (capital vs. lower-case) of the tag names (XML elements I think?). For instance, I have a tag named "lyrics" and sometimes in the files (whose source is not necessarily under my control) that will be <lyrics> and sometimes <Lyrics>. It could of course, by someone's error also be <lYrIcS> or any other weird combination. Is there a way, either at database creation or via some option or at query time to say that "lyrics" = "Lyrics" = "LyRics", etc. i.e. to be case insensitive for the XML tag names?

Thanks!

David

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