file:descendants - returns relative paths

Dear BaseX people, functions file:children() file:descendants() should return the full paths of the resources found, but they do so only if the argument was in turn a full path. A bug? Example: file:children('.') =>PS C:\projects\xquery-introduction\tips> basex "file:children('.')" .\foo.xq .\bar.docx Kind regards,Hans-Jürgen

Hi Hans-Jürgen,

The behavior is correct, but the wording in our documentation may be misleading: While file:list will only return the paths after the input path, file:children and file:descendant will include the input path in the output. An example: file:list('appraiser/') appraiser.sdb Appraiser_Data.ini Appraiser_TelemetryRunList.xml file:children('appraiser/') appraiser\appraiser.sdb appraiser\Appraiser_Data.ini appraiser\Appraiser_TelemetryRunList.xml You can retrieve the absolute path via file:path-to-native or file:resolve-path. Hope this helps, Christian