adding document (as string) to collection

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Travis Webb <tjwebb at vt.edu> wrote: > Everyone, > Here's my situation: > I'm using XQJ. I have an xml document stored as a java string, and I want to > store this into an xquery collection. I see no way to do this without using > the BaseX-specific libraries. I've looked everywhere, and the only thing > I've found that's close is MonetDB's add-doc() function, but that takes a > url as an argument, not a string. I want to do something like: > insert node $document into collection("test"). Obviously this doesn't work > because collections are sequences. > Any info is appreciated. > -tjw

> Dear Travis, > > it's true, unfortunately XQuery Update does not allow to add document > nodes to collections/databases. One of the reasons is that the > document node gets lost by the update, i.e. if your document looks as > follows.. > > test.xml: <xml/> > > ..the following two expressions will do the same: > > – insert node doc('test.xml') into … > – insert node <xml/> into … > > If you want to stick with XQJ and XQuery (Update), the easiest > approach is to define one document root and add all new documents as > children: > > – insert node <xml>new document</xml> into /root > > As other users had similar requests to yours, we are interested in > your own suggestions how you would like to see this issue fixed (e.g., > by adding some XQuery functions like basex:add("...") and > basex:delete("...")). > > Hope this helps, > Christian > > > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:35 AM, Travis Webb <tjwebb at vt.edu> wrote: > > Everyone, > > Here's my situation: > > I'm using XQJ. I have an xml document stored as a java string, and I want > to > > store this into an xquery collection. I see no way to do this without > using > > the BaseX-specific libraries. I've looked everywhere, and the only thing > > I've found that's close is MonetDB's add-doc() function, but that takes a > > url as an argument, not a string. I want to do something like: > > insert node $document into collection("test"). Obviously this doesn't > work > > because collections are sequences. > > Any info is appreciated. > > -tjw > > ___________________________ > > Christian Gruen > Universitaet Konstanz > Department of Computer & Information Science > D-78457 Konstanz, Germany > Tel: +49 (0)7531/88-4449, Fax: +49 (0)7531/88-3577 > http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~gruen >

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Travis Webb <tjwebb at vt.edu> wrote: > Christian, > Thank you for your response. I am using a collection, and do not want to use > a single document. Is there any way I can add documents to it? I'm looking > through the basex docs and see the "Add" class, but I don't see how I can do > this on a server? It looks like Add can only operate on a local database. > I'm looking for any solution. Thanks. > -tjw