Hello Constantine,

as this is not a valid XML document there is no way to add this to BaseX. You could write an XQuery, which reads in the document as a text file and chops the file into valid XML documents (of course you could also do this with some external line-processing tool like sed).

Of course, as you mentioned, adding a root node is the easiest option.

Cheers

Dirk

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS) <C.Hondros@elsevier.com> wrote:

Hello all,

I have a huge extraction of XML documents in a single file, without a root element, something along these lines:

<a>

<b/>

</a>

<a>

<b/>

</a>

…

Other than by editing it to add a root element, is there a clever way of creating a Basex DB from this?

Thanks for any pointers,

C.

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