Christian, Querying all files, the way it's in the thread is done by "querying all the files". My understanding is through iterating over each file and loading it, then filtering them. I am sorry, but I think I used the wrong words. I think I got what I wanted from using the db model. For others facing the same problem, here's what I did:

declare %rest:path("repo/articles") %rest:GET function page:list-articles(){ <articles> { let $db := db:open('repo') for $a in $db/article return <article count="{count($db/article)}">{$a//title[1]}</article> } </articles> } ;

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com wrote:

Mansour,

Sorry for being persistent, but I would be grateful if you could first check out our Wiki and try things before requesting the list. Two links that should give you a start:

http://docs.basex.org/wiki/File_Module http://docs.basex.org/wiki/XQuery

XQuery is a very powerful language. Even things like raytracers have been written in the language. – It takes some time to learn the language, but I dare say it’s worth the time.

Thanks, Christian ___________________________

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Mansour Al Akeel mansour.alakeel@gmail.com wrote:

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Hello all,

I am not sure if this can be done in XQuery, and if BaseX makes it possible, but I am trying to query all the files under a directory. This directory is copied through webdav. For example, I need to get all the files that have root <article>.

Searching for how to do this, I came across this post, that shows how to do something similar with marklogic

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19243253/search-and-load-all-xml-files-in...

How to do this in BaseX if possible ??

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