I'm using BaseX 8.4 but have recreated the issue with 8.5.4 beta 8d90b66

I'm POSTing xml files to a RESTXQ function using the following script

let $fpath := 'C:\incoming\SAQD\mo'
let $targetBasex := 'http://localhost:8984/saqd/mo/'
let $list := sort(file:list($fpath), function($fname) {fn:analyze-string($fname,'.*_(.*?)\.xml$')/fn:match/fn:group[@nr="1"]/string()})
for $file in $list
let $abspath := $fpath||'\'||$file
let $body := try {fetch:xml($abspath, map { 'chop': true() }) }
catch * {()}

return if ( not(empty($body)) ) then (http:send-request(<http:request href="{$targetBasex||$file}"
method='POST'>
<http:body media-type="text/xml">{$body}</http:body>
</http:request>), file:move($abspath,$fpath||'\processed\'||$file) )
else ()

The XML file has no namespace declarations.

The RESTXQ function does a db:update using the body received and the http-client namespace has been added to the root node.

If I POST to the same function using curl the stored document is unchanged.

The function is as follows.

declare

%rest:path("/saqd/mo/{$fname}")

(: %rest:consumes("application/xml", "text/xml") :)

%rest:POST("{$body}")

%updating

function saqd:mo($fname, $body as document-node())

{

try {(db:replace('SAQD', '/MO/'||$fname, $body ),

db:output(http:send-request(<http:request href="{'http://example.org:8082/home/VALIDSCHEMA/xml/current/Metoffice_Data/'||$fname}"

method='PUT' username='validuser' password='validpassword' send-authorization='true'>

<http:body media-type='text/xml'>{$body}</http:body>

</http:request>))

)

}

catch * {db:output(

<rest:response>

<http:response status="500" message="{$err:code||' : '||$err:description}">

</http:response>

</rest:response>)}

};

The file PUT inside the db:output statement also gets the namespace added i.e. it happens even when the file was POSTed with curl so the recieved document still had no namespaces.

Is this expected behaviour, a bug, or am I using http:send-request incorrectly?

Regards,

chris sweeney