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Andy Bunce, 30 Oct 2026, 16:59 · last by Christian Grün, 31 Oct 2026, 17:19
Hi, I am trying to understand the XQ4 spec here https://qt4cg.org/specifications/xquery-40/xquery-40.html#eval_context When the fn:static-base-uri <https://qt4cg.org/specifications/xpath-functions-40/…
BaseX 13.03 replies
Christian Grün, 30 Oct 2026, 17:43 · last by Hans-Juergen Rennau, 31 Oct 2026, 09:49
Dear all, Version 13 is here – the next major release of BaseX, our open-source XML framework, database engine, and XQuery 4.0 processor. A huge step forward: indexes are now always up to date, JSON c…
Martin Honnen, 30 Oct 2026, 16:58 · last by Christian Grün, 30 Oct 2026, 18:24
The BaseX fiddle has an XQuery 4 example "error handling" having declare function local:divide($a, $b) { if ($b = 0) { error(xs:QName('local:div-zero'), 'Division by zero', $a) } else { $a div $b } };…
Peter Piwowarski, 28 Oct 2026, 22:06 · last by Peter Piwowarski, 29 Oct 2026, 21:40
Consider the following (Linux) directory structure, where /tmp/foo/baz is a symbolic link to the directory /tmp/foo/bar: /tmp/foo /tmp/foo/bar /tmp/foo/bar/spam /tmp/foo/bar/ham /tmp/foo/bar/egg /tmp/…
Amanda Galtman, 29 Oct 2026, 13:40 · last by Amanda Galtman, 29 Oct 2026, 21:10
Hi, BaseX team. When an XML catalog has an entry <rewriteURI rewritePrefix="./" uriStartString="cat:/" /> I can use it with a declaration like this: import module "x-urn:test:helper" at "cat:/helper.x…
repalce of convert:string-to-hex()10 replies
Marco Lettere, 26 Oct 2026, 16:23 · last by Graydon Saunders, 28 Oct 2026, 19:46
Hello, what will be the replacement of "convert:string-to-hex" in BaseX13? Thanks. Marco.
Amanda Galtman, 24 Oct 2026, 15:05 · last by Amanda Galtman, 26 Oct 2026, 15:02
Hi, BaseX team. The XSpec issue https://github.com/xspec/xspec/issues/2493 describes a problem with the latest BaseX 13.0 preview snapshot in which output is serialized as text instead of XML, when th…
Amanda Galtman, 23 Oct 2026, 21:25 · last by Amanda Galtman, 24 Oct 2026, 00:14
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…
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…
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
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