BaseX and Git versioning of XML at the same

> Send BaseX-Talk mailing list submissions to > basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > basex-talk-request at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > > You can reach the person managing the list at > basex-talk-owner at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of BaseX-Talk digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. BaseX and Git versioning of XML at the same time (Enea Parimbelli) > 2. Re: BaseX and Git versioning of XML at the same time > (Dirk Kirsten) > 3. Re: BaseX and Git versioning of XML at the same time > (Eliot Kimber) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:33:58 +0100 > From: Enea Parimbelli <enea.parimbelli at gmail.com> > To: basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > Subject: [basex-talk] BaseX and Git versioning of XML at the same time > Message-ID: > <CABz3M_P4mWEsG20tws+UiCXoTbzXTEQqzX7-Ew=+kJJq= > pZsYg at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Dear all, > I'm Enea from Italy (working at the university of Pavia) and this is my > first email to this list and I hope you'll forgive my dumb question. > For one of my projects I was planning to use BaseX to be able to run > Xqueries to manipulate a bunch of XMLs that I have on my filesystem (i.e. > to take advantage of what XQuery can do vs manual editing of the xml > files). > At the same time I would like to have a version control system (Git in my > case) control my files to be able to diff, branch, revert changes etc. > However the way BaseX internally stores files is preventing me from doing > this easily. > > Here is an example of what I have in mind: > 0. I have a bunch of xmls in a folder (versioned with a git repo) > 1. I create a baseX database from these > 2. Run a bunch of updates/edits on the files using Xquery processor from > basex > 3. move back to git to diff what I've accomplished, commit, etc. > 4. (possibly more advanced, not sure if I really need this) I want to be > able to checkout a previous version of the files and have basex do the same > (i.e. if I run a query now I want it to run on the version of the xmls that > I have currently checked-out in my filesystem) > > Here are the (dumb) questions: > 1. Is there a way for basex (maybe some config settings when I create the > database?) to work keeping on the plain xml files? In a way that every > update query would actually change the original xml files (which I can view > with a plain text editor even "outside" the basex environment)? > 2. Is the only way of immediately seeing the changes I made to the xml > files to export the database after every update? > 3. (assuming 1 is doable) Would it be possible to have baseX recognize the > changes made to the xml files using an external editor (i.e. not through > xqueries run in basex)? > 4. From your experience is BaseX the proper tool for my purposes? It feels > to me that I merely want to use its xquery processor capabilities (and I > don't need the full-fledged database) while keeping the files plainly > stored in my filesystem... any suggestion on alternative options if baseX > doesn't sound like the right one? > > Thanks in advance for the help, > and congratulations on the great work (I used basex in the past in a more > orthodox way and was impressed by the numerous nice features... including > being the nice GUI and the hassle-free integration with tomcat!) > > Best regards, > Enea Parimbelli > > -- > Dr. Enea Parimbelli > Post-doctoral research fellow > Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics "Mario Stefanelli" > Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering > University of Pavia, Italy > e-mail: enea.parimbelli at gmail.com > phone: +39-0382-985057 +39-0382-985981 > http://www.labmedinfo.org/people/parimbelli >