This XQuery Module provides simple functions to fetch the content of resources identified by URIs. Resources can be stored locally or remotely and e.g. use the file://
or http://
scheme. If more control over HTTP requests is required, the HTTP Module can be used. With the HTML Module, retrieved HTML documents can be converted to XML.
Conventions
All functions in this module are assigned to the http://basex.org/modules/fetch
namespace, which is statically bound to the fetch
prefix.
All errors are assigned to the http://basex.org/errors
namespace, which is statically bound to the bxerr
prefix.
Functions
fetch:binary
Signatures
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fetch:binary($uri as xs:string) as xs:base64Binary
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Summary
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Fetches the resource referred to by the given URI and returns it as streamable xs:base64Binary .
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Errors
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BXFE0001 : the URI could not be resolved, or the resource could not be retrieved.
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Examples
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fetch:binary("http://images.trulia.com/blogimg/c/5/f/4/679932_1298401950553_o.jpg") returns the addressed image.
stream:materialize(fetch:binary("http://en.wikipedia.org")) returns a materialized representation of the streamable result.
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fetch:text
Signatures
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fetch:text($uri as xs:string) as xs:string
fetch:text($uri as xs:string, $encoding as xs:string) as xs:string
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Summary
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Fetches the resource referred to by the given URI and returns it as streamable xs:string .
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Errors
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BXFE0001 : the URI could not be resolved, or the resource could not be retrieved. Invalid XML characters will be ignored if the CHECKSTRINGS option is turned off.
BXFE0002 : the specified encoding is not supported, or unknown.
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Examples
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fetch:text("http://en.wikipedia.org") returns a string representation of the English Wikipedia main HTML page.
stream:materialize(fetch:text("http://en.wikipedia.org")) returns a materialized representation of the streamable result.
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fetch:xml
Signatures
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fetch:xml($uri as xs:string) as document-node()
fetch:xml($uri as xs:string, $options as map(xs:string, item())) as document-node()
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Summary
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Fetches the resource referred to by the given $uri and returns it as an XML document. In contrast to fn:doc , each function call returns a different document node. As a consequence, document instances created by this function will not be kept in memory until the end of query evaluation. The $options argument can be used to change the parsing behavior. Allowed options are all parsing and XML parsing options in lower case.
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Errors
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BXFE0001 : the URI could not be resolved, or the resource could not be retrieved.
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Examples
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The following expression returns an XML representation of the English Wikipedia main HTML page and chops all whitespace nodes:
fetch:xml("http://en.wikipedia.org", map { 'chop': true() })
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fetch:content-type
Signatures
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fetch:content-type($uri as xs:string) as xs:string
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Summary
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Returns the content-type (also called mime-type) of the resource specified by $uri :
- If a remote resource is addressed, the request header will be evaluated.
- If the addressed resource is locally stored, the content-type will be guessed based on the file extension.
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Errors
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BXFE0001 : the URI could not be resolved, or the resource could not be retrieved.
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Examples
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fetch:content-type("http://docs.basex.org/skins/vector/images/wiki.png") returns image/png .
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Errors
Code
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Description
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BXFE0001
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The URI could not be resolved, or the resource could not be retrieved.
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BXFE0002
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The specified encoding is not supported, or unknown.
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Changelog
- Version 8.0
The module was introduced with Version 7.6.