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Unprefixed name in namespace, issue with default namespace in 12.4 and snapshot 13.01 reply
Amanda Galtman, 23 Oct 2026, 21:25 · last by Christian Grün, 23 Oct 2026, 22:30
Hi, BaseX team. I'm getting unexpected results from the following query: let $default-namespace as namespace-node() := namespace {""} {"default-namespace-text"}let $e as element() := element {QName('s…
Map not reported as an instance of map(*)1 reply
Amanda Galtman, 23 Oct 2026, 20:12 · last by Martin Honnen, 23 Oct 2026, 20:18
Hi, BaseX team. Is it correct for a map not to be considered an instance of map(*)? The following query in BaseX 12.4 returns (false, true). It's not relevant that the map is empty. I get the same res…
BaseX-Talk Digest, Vol 202, Issue 91 reply
Rob Stapper, 19 Oct 2026, 09:32 · last by Rob Stapper, 19 Oct 2026, 11:22
Christian, Looking good, thnx. PS. was not aware of the Ctrl-J feature. Regards, Rob
GUI-projectView suggestion1 reply
Rob Stapper, 16 Oct 2026, 12:51 · last by Christian Grün, 17 Oct 2026, 17:19
Hi, Not only activate the editor when a file is activated for editing in the project-search subview of the GUI (topsubview in projectview when search is active) but also activate the filename in the p…
Error raised inside rest:error annotated function1 reply
Mauro Mugnaini, 14 Oct 2026, 17:51 · last by Christian Grün, 14 Oct 2026, 19:46
Hi All, I noticed that when handling an error in a rest:error annotated function, if inside this function another error is raised/occurs, this is treated as a “normal” unhandled error with the HTTP 50…
XQuery to generate a catalog of EXPath package XSLT stylesheetsno replies
Clark, Ash, 13 Oct 2026, 18:18
Hi all, Sharing this in case it helps anyone else! I have a semi-public EXPath package<https://wwp.northeastern.edu/utils/lib/expath-pkg.xml> that is mainly XQuery functions, with a few of those funct…
Mailing list: included in the docs; BaseX 13: on the Horizon5 replies
Christian Grün, 11 Oct 2026, 22:06 · last by Christian Grün, 12 Oct 2026, 16:47
Dear all, Our mailing list archive (since 2010) is now available in the BaseX documentation. Thanks to XQuery Full Text, you can easily browse and search past discussions: https://docs.basex.org/main/…
castable as QName(..., ...)1 reply
Hans-Juergen Rennau, 8 Oct 2026, 14:24 · last by Christian Grün, 11 Oct 2026, 13:11
Dear BaseX folks, probably I'm misreading the grammar - should this be supported or not: castable as QName(..., ...) ? With kind regards, Hans-Jürgen
Q: diff between declared function and delared function-variable?1 reply
Rob Stapper, 7 Oct 2026, 12:27 · last by Christian Grün, 11 Oct 2026, 13:09
Hi Christian and crew, I am thinking about changing all my function declarations: - 'declare function <function-name>(..){...};', to function-variable declarations: - 'declare variable <variable-name>…
JsonML "No object allowed at this stage"2 replies
Bridger Dyson-Smith, 2 Oct 2026, 17:21 · last by Bridger Dyson-Smith, 2 Oct 2026, 20:30
Dear Christian, et al, Is this a bug or the usual user/operator error? While trying to add some parsed JSON to a database, I'm getting an error with BaseX 12.3 and json:parse($json, map {'format':'jso…
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