How to export a database containing xi:include to multiple files
Saturday, 5 May 2018 · 2 messages · last reply 7 May 2018
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Marco Randazzo5 May 2018 20:09 #
Hello,
I used baseX gui to create a database from the following test file:
<main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<xi:include href="folder1/file1.xml" />
<xi:include href="folder2/file1.xml" />
</main>The Result of the baseX gui is correct:
<main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<data xml:base="folder1/file1.xml">5555</data>
<data xml:base="folder2/file1.xml">6666</data>
</main>Now, after editing the values, I would like to export the contents of the database to xml files, recreating the same folders and files (I see this information stored in the value of xml:base) However, using the export function available in the GUI, I am able only to obtain a single file containing the Result shown above. What should I do?
Thank you
Cheers
Marco Randazzo
AH
Alexander Holupirek7 May 2018 11:03 #
Quoted text · Marco Randazzo · 22 lines
> On 5. May 2018, at 20:09, Marco Randazzo <Marco.Randazzo at iit.it> wrote: > > Hello, > I used baseX gui to create a database from the following test file: > > <main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> > <xi:include href="folder1/file1.xml" /> > <xi:include href="folder2/file1.xml" /> > </main> > > The Result of the baseX gui is correct: > > <main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"> > <data xml:base="folder1/file1.xml">5555</data> > <data xml:base="folder2/file1.xml">6666</data> > </main> > > Now, after editing the values, I would like to export the contents of the database to xml files, recreating the same folders and files (I see this information stored in the value of xml:base) > However, using the export function available in the GUI, I am able only to obtain a single file containing the Result shown above. What should I do? > Thank you > Cheers > Marco Randazzo
Hi Marco,
the export function in the GUI will, as you have noticed, dump the content of the database as XML to a file.
To recreate the file hierarchy with the changed XML data a little bit of XQuery is needed. A small example (just to sketch the idea):
let $xml :=
<main xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<data xml:base="/tmp/file1.xml">5555</data>
<data xml:base="/tmp/file2.xml">6666</data>
</main>
for $data in $xml/data
let $fpath := $data/@xml:base/data()
return file:write($fpath, $data)Cheers,
Alex
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