(How to) build application with BaseX

> Since XQDT works under Eclipse 3.7 and offers parentheses matching [...]

> De : Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> > À : BaseX <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de> > Cc : Andreas Rulle <andreas.rulle at nexoma.de> > Envoyé le : Mardi 25 septembre 2012 13h49 > Objet : [basex-talk] (How to) build application with BaseX > > Hi Andreas, hi everyone, > >> Since XQDT works under Eclipse 3.7 and offers parentheses matching [...] > > that's an important point of course. I would generally interested what > tools you (all) prefer to develop applications with BaseX, XQuery and > XML. > > As you may know, the embedded BaseX editor can be used to process > XQuery, XML and any other types of text documents. It know various > powerful hotkeys [1] that are not documented in the GUI. It provides > direct feedback on parsing errors in the edited and imported modules. > The latest snapshot [2] also parses XML documents and command scripts > and, since this weekend, offers a much more powerful facility for > incrementally searching and replacing strings (incl. support for > regular expressions). > > Enough of the self-adulation… We're well aware that it would be a > waste of time if we seriously tried to cope with existing text editors > and IDEs, such as.. > > • Eclipse w/XQDT > • oXygen > • vim, Emacs, etc. > > ..so we’d like to know what are your favorite editors for writing > XQuery expressions and applications, and what convinces, or deters > you, mostly from using the built-in editor or the alternatives? > > Thanks in advance for your opinion, > Christian > > [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Shortcuts#Editor_Shortcuts > [2] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >

> Hi, > > Personally, I use oXygen for all my XML-related work, for all its integration mechanism, switching on a regular basis to Emacs when it comes to intensively editing files... > > When I have to do anything specific to BaseX, the built-in editor is very good and provides everything at hand! > > Regards, > > -- > Florent Georges > http://fgeorges.org/ > http://h2oconsulting.be/ > > > ----- Mail original ----- >> De : Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> >> À : BaseX <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de> >> Cc : Andreas Rulle <andreas.rulle at nexoma.de> >> Envoyé le : Mardi 25 septembre 2012 13h49 >> Objet : [basex-talk] (How to) build application with BaseX >> >> Hi Andreas, hi everyone, >> >>> Since XQDT works under Eclipse 3.7 and offers parentheses matching [...] >> >> that's an important point of course. I would generally interested what >> tools you (all) prefer to develop applications with BaseX, XQuery and >> XML. >> >> As you may know, the embedded BaseX editor can be used to process >> XQuery, XML and any other types of text documents. It know various >> powerful hotkeys [1] that are not documented in the GUI. It provides >> direct feedback on parsing errors in the edited and imported modules. >> The latest snapshot [2] also parses XML documents and command scripts >> and, since this weekend, offers a much more powerful facility for >> incrementally searching and replacing strings (incl. support for >> regular expressions). >> >> Enough of the self-adulation… We're well aware that it would be a >> waste of time if we seriously tried to cope with existing text editors >> and IDEs, such as.. >> >> • Eclipse w/XQDT >> • oXygen >> • vim, Emacs, etc. >> >> ..so we’d like to know what are your favorite editors for writing >> XQuery expressions and applications, and what convinces, or deters >> you, mostly from using the built-in editor or the alternatives? >> >> Thanks in advance for your opinion, >> Christian >> >> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Shortcuts#Editor_Shortcuts >> [2] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ >> _______________________________________________ >> BaseX-Talk mailing list >> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >> > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk

Maximilian Gärber wrote:

> The execution of XQuery is a different topic: oXygen uses Saxon for > XQuery execution/debugging which helps for the general cases. But > everything specific to BaseX isn't available, of course.

> > ..so we’d like to know what are your favorite editors for writing > XQuery expressions and applications, and what convinces, > >

> or deters you, mostly from using the built-in editor or the alternatives? > >

> When testing the script during the development against a sample database > with BasexGUI this is manually changed into: > > (: declare variable $dbName external; :) > declare variable $dbName := 'll_i_one';

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Florent Georges <lists at fgeorges.org> wrote: > Maximilian Gärber wrote: > > Hi, > >> The execution of XQuery is a different topic: oXygen uses Saxon for >> XQuery execution/debugging which helps for the general cases. But >> everything specific to BaseX isn't available, of course. > > That's true, but I wouldn't say "of course". If you'd like to use > your copy of oXygen with BaseX, I am sure the oXygen team would like > to know about that. And if anyone if willing to help drafting an > implementation, I am sure they would listen ;-) I am sure writing an > email to the oXygen list to ask if they have such a plan is worth > spending the time. > > I wrote once a set of XProc steps to evaluate XQuery on BaseX. So > technically, you could even write a small XProc pipeline using them > and associate a scenario to your XQuery to be the input of this > pipeline. Just a thought... (honestly, I don't even remember where > are those steps, but you should find them by googling for "basex > calabash"). > > Regards, > > -- > Florent Georges > http://fgeorges.org/ > http://h2oconsulting.be/ > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Maximilian Gärber <gaerber at axxepta.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I prefer oXygen, as well. The WebDAV integration is ok for working > with the data and to edit XQuery modules that are stored in the db. > > The execution of XQuery is a different topic: oXygen uses Saxon for > XQuery execution/debugging which helps for the general cases. But > everything specific to BaseX isn't available, of course. > > In the end, I tend to use the BaseX REST interface to get BaseX error > handling. Since I am using BaseX, eXist-db and Saxon, I try to avoid > any vendor specific tools. > > Regards, > > Max > > 2012/9/25 Florent Georges <lists at fgeorges.org>: >> Hi, >> >> Personally, I use oXygen for all my XML-related work, for all its integration mechanism, switching on a regular basis to Emacs when it comes to intensively editing files... >> >> When I have to do anything specific to BaseX, the built-in editor is very good and provides everything at hand! >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Florent Georges >> http://fgeorges.org/ >> http://h2oconsulting.be/ >> >> >> ----- Mail original ----- >>> De : Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com> >>> À : BaseX <basex-talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de> >>> Cc : Andreas Rulle <andreas.rulle at nexoma.de> >>> Envoyé le : Mardi 25 septembre 2012 13h49 >>> Objet : [basex-talk] (How to) build application with BaseX >>> >>> Hi Andreas, hi everyone, >>> >>>> Since XQDT works under Eclipse 3.7 and offers parentheses matching [...] >>> >>> that's an important point of course. I would generally interested what >>> tools you (all) prefer to develop applications with BaseX, XQuery and >>> XML. >>> >>> As you may know, the embedded BaseX editor can be used to process >>> XQuery, XML and any other types of text documents. It know various >>> powerful hotkeys [1] that are not documented in the GUI. It provides >>> direct feedback on parsing errors in the edited and imported modules. >>> The latest snapshot [2] also parses XML documents and command scripts >>> and, since this weekend, offers a much more powerful facility for >>> incrementally searching and replacing strings (incl. support for >>> regular expressions). >>> >>> Enough of the self-adulation… We're well aware that it would be a >>> waste of time if we seriously tried to cope with existing text editors >>> and IDEs, such as.. >>> >>> • Eclipse w/XQDT >>> • oXygen >>> • vim, Emacs, etc. >>> >>> ..so we’d like to know what are your favorite editors for writing >>> XQuery expressions and applications, and what convinces, or deters >>> you, mostly from using the built-in editor or the alternatives? >>> >>> Thanks in advance for your opinion, >>> Christian >>> >>> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Shortcuts#Editor_Shortcuts >>> [2] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> BaseX-Talk mailing list >>> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >>> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> BaseX-Talk mailing list >> BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de >> https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk > > > > -- > > Maximilian Gärber > > axxepta solutions GmbH > Postfach 51 02 38 > 13362 Berlin > > Tel +49 (0)30 499 147 66 > Fax +49 (0)30 499 147 67 > Mail gaerber at axxepta.de > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > BaseX-Talk at mailman.uni-konstanz.de > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk