BaseX offers a RESTful API for accessing database resources via URLs.
REST ([httphttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer REpresentational State Transfer])
facilitates a simple and fast access to databases through HTTP. The HTTP methods
GET, PUT, DELETE, and POST can be used to interact with the database.
==Command Line==
Tools such as the Linux commands [httphttps://www.gnu.org/s/wget/ Wget] or [http://curl.haxx.se/ cURL] exist to
perform HTTP requests (try copy & paste):