Suggestion about the tutorial examples

(Newbie alert)

I just discovered BaseX. Congratulations and big thanks to the authors and all involved!

I have been investigating a LOT of alternatives (programming languages, OSs, toolkits, etc.) and have concluded that the best approach for my application (XML read-only) is to use XPath (plus some XQuery). I have found some introductory examples written in C++ (Xerces) where the authors go through all kinds of complex convolutions to redirect the result of the XPath query to the screen. I hate to state the obvious, but we newbies do not want to send the XML elements to the screen. We rather assign them to some variable.

That is the request I have. I think the application "QueryExample" and similar could use some way to assign the retrieved values to a variable.

Thanks again!

-Ramon

(I am not in this mailing list)

Hi Ramon,

Sure, that's comprehensible. If you are using a more recent version of BaseX, such as..

http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/dbis/basex/maven/org/basex/basex/6.2.9/basex-6.2.9.jar

you can modify the quoted QueryExample and use the following simple line of code to assign the string result of a query to a variable:

String result = new XQuery(query).execute(context);

The official examples will all be updated with the next official release.

Christian