Feature request

On 11/02/2014 06:12 PM, Pieter Masereeuw wrote: > Hi! > > It would be nice if there were a feature that basex could skip certain > directories during the import. Now I have great trouble to remove (and > later restore) all .svn-folders (Subversion) because I don't want them > to be imported when I create a database. > > Perhaps this is already a feature, but then I could not find it. In that > case, perhaps a more conspicuous place in the documentation would be a > good idea. > > Thank you for an excellent product! > > Pieter Masereeuw >

> sounds like a reasonable feature request to me. To be most flexible, I would suggest to allow regex in the input path. Christian, would do you think?

> > In the meantime, you can already do the same thing using XQuery instead of database commands. Something like > > for $f in file:list('your-directory') > where not(starts-with(file:name($f), '.')) > return db:add("DB", $f) > > should emit adding files with a starting dot. > > Cheers, > Dirk > On 11/02/2014 06:12 PM, Pieter Masereeuw wrote: >> Hi! >> >> It would be nice if there were a feature that basex could skip certain >> directories during the import. Now I have great trouble to remove (and >> later restore) all .svn-folders (Subversion) because I don't want them >> to be imported when I create a database. >> >> Perhaps this is already a feature, but then I could not find it. In that >> case, perhaps a more conspicuous place in the documentation would be a >> good idea. >> >> Thank you for an excellent product! >> >> Pieter Masereeuw >> > > -- > Dirk Kirsten, BaseX GmbH, http://basex.org > |-- Firmensitz: Blarerstrasse 56, 78462 Konstanz > |-- Registergericht Freiburg, HRB: 708285, Geschäftsführer: > | Dr. Christian Grün, Dr. Alexander Holupirek, Michael Seiferle > `-- Phone: 0049 7531 28 28 676, Fax: 0049 7531 20 05 22 >

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dirk, > >> sounds like a reasonable feature request to me. To be most flexible, I would suggest to allow regex in the input path. Christian, would do you think? > > Yes, this could be a viable option. Do you already have a concrete > idea how you would do this? In Saxon, for example, a query string can > be attached to the actual path [1]. > > Looking forward to more suggestions, > Christian > > [1] http://www.xmlplease.com/collection > > > >> >> In the meantime, you can already do the same thing using XQuery instead of database commands. Something like >> >> for $f in file:list('your-directory') >> where not(starts-with(file:name($f), '.')) >> return db:add("DB", $f) >> >> should emit adding files with a starting dot. >> >> Cheers, >> Dirk >> On 11/02/2014 06:12 PM, Pieter Masereeuw wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> It would be nice if there were a feature that basex could skip certain >>> directories during the import. Now I have great trouble to remove (and >>> later restore) all .svn-folders (Subversion) because I don't want them >>> to be imported when I create a database. >>> >>> Perhaps this is already a feature, but then I could not find it. In that >>> case, perhaps a more conspicuous place in the documentation would be a >>> good idea. >>> >>> Thank you for an excellent product! >>> >>> Pieter Masereeuw >>> >> >> -- >> Dirk Kirsten, BaseX GmbH, http://basex.org >> |-- Firmensitz: Blarerstrasse 56, 78462 Konstanz >> |-- Registergericht Freiburg, HRB: 708285, Geschäftsführer: >> | Dr. Christian Grün, Dr. Alexander Holupirek, Michael Seiferle >> `-- Phone: 0049 7531 28 28 676, Fax: 0049 7531 20 05 22 >>