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Christian Grün, 11 Oct 2026, 22:06
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
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>…
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($json, map {'format':'jso…
html:parse causing jobs to queue?4 replies
Lizzi, Vincent, 27 Sep 2026, 18:18 · last by Lizzi, Vincent, 28 Sep 2026, 16:29
Hi BaseX team, It appears that html:parse is causing an undefined locking state which can cause jobs to queue. Here is a minimal example: declare %rest:path('/parse') %rest:query-param('content', '{$c…
Andrew Sales, 21 Sep 2026, 15:54
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Java code in XQuery?6 replies
Jan Ctibor, 16 Sep 2026, 13:13 · last by Graydon Saunders, 18 Sep 2026, 15:46
Hi everybody, I have a question for both the BaseX team and everybody else: what is the good/best vs. bad/worst practice when integrating Java code to BaseX (XQuery)? XQuery has some limitations and p…
Change in import behavior10 replies
Marco Lettere, 13 Jul 2026, 13:35 · last by Christian Grün, 18 Sep 2026, 15:41
Dear all, I've noticed moving from 11.9 to 12.3 that one import statement got lost and was no longer able to find corresponding module. I noticed that the way the file is placed in the repo has change…
Rob Stapper, 11 Sep 2026, 15:19 · last by Christian Grün, 11 Sep 2026, 20:54
Hi, In some situations I want to import the same module but from a different role. This situation can occur in a recursive construct or in case of multiple data-streams. For clarity and transparency i…
Rob Stapper, 10 Sep 2026, 13:05 · last by Christian Grün, 11 Sep 2026, 20:52
Hi, Is it possible to create a 'fn:variable-lookup' function; the same as 'fn:function-lookup' but for variables. My public functions are made public through public variables, the functions self are a…
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