> How do you currently proceed?

I have two queries that add attributes to a morphology I am processing. Ideally, I would like each attribute to be added at the end of the attribute list, after any existing attributes.

The first adds an @after attribute if there is a space or punctuation after the token:

declare function local:segs($nodes)
{
if (head($nodes)[self::*:seg])
then concat(string(head($nodes)), local:segs(tail($nodes)))
else ()
};

declare variable $oshb := db:open("oshb-morphology");

for $w in $oshb//*:w
let $next := $w/following-sibling::*[1]
where $next
let $after :=
if ($next[self::*:w]) then " "
else if ($next[self::*:seg]) then local:segs($w/following-sibling::*)
else ""
return
insert node attribute after {$after} into $w

The second adds Book-Chapter-Verse-Word-Part numbering:

let $oshb := db:open("oshb-morphology")
for $verse in $oshb//*:verse
order by local:bcv($verse/@osisID)
for $w at $i in $verse/*[self::*:w or self::*:c]
for $p at $j in local:entities($w)
let $id := local:bcvwp($verse/@osisID, $i, $j)
return (
delete node $p/@n,
insert node attribute n {$id} into $p
)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 4:34 AM Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jonathan,

> Is there any way for me to control the order of attributes in BaseX when I insert new attributes?

If you evaluate the following XQuery expression in BaseX …

<a b='b' c='c'/>

… you can be sure that the attributes will be placed in the original
order. Please note that we cannot give a guarantee that this will stay
that way forever, even though it’s unlikely to change.

If you have an existing element, you can reinsert all attributes in
the order you want:

let $a := <a b='b' c='c'/>
return element { node-name($a) } {
$a/@*, attribute d { 'd' }, $a/node()
}

How do you currently proceed?

Best,
Christian