BaseX and 'view'?

Hi, I am writing a blog for R-bloggers with the aim of raising awareness of my RbaseX package. The latest version is super fast! Loading and saving 740 xml documents from the R environment took only 34 seconds! Before I can use those documents I will probably have to convert them using xsl. I was wondering if BaseX, like Oracle, also has a 'view' over the original data? I can then define multiple views that are better adapted to the intended use. ben

The short answer to your question is “yes”, you can create whatever views you want over your content. This is what I’m doing in my Validation Dashboard application, where I construct new documents that serve as indexes or views over other documents, capturing the result of time-consuming data processing applied to the base documents. In my case, I have a body of source documents (DITA maps and topics) and validation reports over those documents generated by OxygenXML (also XML documents). I load the source documents and the validation reports and then generate an index that correlates issues in the validation report to top-level DITA maps that ultimately refer to the topics and maps individual issues apply to. The report issues record the file system path of the documents, so I have code that converts those references into BaseX node IDs for fast indexing and retrieval. Using this issue-to-dita-map index I can then present reports of issues by dita map, as well as other summaries of the validation issues (i.e., issues by problem code, severity, etc.) Cheers, E. _____________________________________________ Eliot Kimber Sr Staff Content Engineer O: 512 554 9368 M: 512 554 9368 servicenow.com<https://www.servicenow.com> LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/servicenow> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/servicenow> | YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/servicenowinc> | Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/servicenow>