Using BaseX with Scripts

Am 17.03.2011 um 16:27 schrieb Adrien Guillon: > Hello BaseX community, > > I am writing a script to load a RDBMS with some information from large > XML files (1GB). I am using BaseX and XQuery to process the files and > generate appropriate data dumps for bulk loading the database. My > ultimate goal is to write a couple BASH scripts that will just load up > the database, however I need some advice on how to script BaseX. I > would like to load the XML file, generate a couple indexes, run my > queries, then delete the indexes. It does not look like BaseX is so > easily scripted from the command line, unless I initially load the > database or run a BaseX server. I have tried running BaseX just using > doc() inside the XQuery but this takes forever... > > Ideally I would want to write as script like this: > > #!/bin/bash > basex --generate-index --dbname="hello_world" file.xml > basex --query qry.xml > result.xml > basex --delete --dbname="hello world" > > Any suggestions on how I can do this? > > Thanks, > > AJ > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk

Am 17.03.2011 um 16:40 schrieb Adrien Guillon: > Okay thanks, I missed this page :-) > > Can I do all of this without any installation of BaseX? I am hoping > to just package the .jar with the script and run the scripts without > users knowing what is going on (this is for a course assignment). > > AJ > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Andreas Weiler > <andreas.weiler at uni-konstanz.de> wrote: >> Hi Adrien, >> for an easy example you could do the following: >> save your steps in a textfile, like: >> create db test <test/> >> xquery . >> then run basex like the following (using the BaseX.jar): >> java -cp BaseX.jar org.basex.BaseX < script >> All commands for your script can be found in our wiki: >> http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands >> I hope this helps, >> don't hesitate to ask for more information. >> -- Andreas >> Am 17.03.2011 um 16:27 schrieb Adrien Guillon: >> >> Hello BaseX community, >> >> I am writing a script to load a RDBMS with some information from large >> XML files (1GB). I am using BaseX and XQuery to process the files and >> generate appropriate data dumps for bulk loading the database. My >> ultimate goal is to write a couple BASH scripts that will just load up >> the database, however I need some advice on how to script BaseX. I >> would like to load the XML file, generate a couple indexes, run my >> queries, then delete the indexes. It does not look like BaseX is so >> easily scripted from the command line, unless I initially load the >> database or run a BaseX server. I have tried running BaseX just using >> doc() inside the XQuery but this takes forever... >> >> Ideally I would want to write as script like this: >> >> #!/bin/bash >> basex --generate-index --dbname="hello_world" file.xml >> basex --query qry.xml > result.xml >> basex --delete --dbname="hello world" >> >> Any suggestions on how I can do this? >> >> Thanks, >> >> AJ >> _______________________________________________ >> BaseX-Talk mailing list >> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >> >>

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Andreas Weiler <andreas.weiler at uni-konstanz.de> wrote: > Hi Adrien, > for an easy example you could do the following: > save your steps in a textfile, like: > create db test <test/> > xquery . > then run basex like the following (using the BaseX.jar): > java -cp BaseX.jar org.basex.BaseX < script > All commands for your script can be found in our wiki: > http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands > I hope this helps, > don't hesitate to ask for more information. > -- Andreas > Am 17.03.2011 um 16:27 schrieb Adrien Guillon: > > Hello BaseX community, > > I am writing a script to load a RDBMS with some information from large > XML files (1GB). I am using BaseX and XQuery to process the files and > generate appropriate data dumps for bulk loading the database. My > ultimate goal is to write a couple BASH scripts that will just load up > the database, however I need some advice on how to script BaseX. I > would like to load the XML file, generate a couple indexes, run my > queries, then delete the indexes. It does not look like BaseX is so > easily scripted from the command line, unless I initially load the > database or run a BaseX server. I have tried running BaseX just using > doc() inside the XQuery but this takes forever... > > Ideally I would want to write as script like this: > > #!/bin/bash > basex --generate-index --dbname="hello_world" file.xml > basex --query qry.xml > result.xml > basex --delete --dbname="hello world" > > Any suggestions on how I can do this? > > Thanks, > > AJ > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > >