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You can access multiple databases in a single query:

for $i in 1 to 100

return db:get('books' || $i)//book/title

The {{Code|fn:document-uri}} and {{Code|fn:base-uri}} functions return URIs that can also be reused as arguments for the {{Code|fn:doc}} and {{Code|fn:collection}} functions. As a result, the following example query always returns {{Code|true}}:

every $c in collection('anyDB')

satisfies doc-available(document-uri($c))

If the API you use does not support binary output (which is e.g. the case for various [[Clients|Client]] language bindings), you can convert your binary data to its string representation before returning it to the client:

string(db:get-binary('multimedia', 'sample.avi'))

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With {{Function|Database|db:get-value}}, XQuery values can be retrieved. In the following example, we assume that an XQuery map {{Code|cities}} was stored in an {{Code|indexes}} database:

let $city-map := db:get-value('indexes', 'cities')

return $city-map?Chile

You can also use functions from the [[Database Module]] to add, replace, or delete XML documents:

db:add('documents', '/path/to/xml/resources/')

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Function from other modules, such as the [[File Module]], can be utilized to filter the input. With the following code, all files that contain numbers in the filename are selected, and stored as XML. If an input file contains no well-formed XML, it is stored as binary resource, and the error message is stored as a string value:

let $db := 'documents'

let $root := '/path/to/resources/'

The error messages can e.g. be analyzed in a second step:

let $errors := db:get-value('documents')

for $filename in map:keys($errors)