On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Christian Grün
<
christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chad, I wasn't aware of the "*." syntax. Unfortunately, Java
> (version <= 6) has no class for parsing the glob syntax, but I've now
> extended our parser
> syntax to also support patterns with trailing dots. Feel free to check
> out the sources, or give me a message to send you a jar build.
>
> Best,
> Christian
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Chad Lancour
> <
chad@helmetcameracentral.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Christian. Just tried that. The xml files do not have a file
>> extension such as "file1" "file2", so * would work, but there are also *.ATR
>> files as well - which are binary format. When using *, BaseX chokes on the
>> binary (Error: "root.atr" (Line 1): No text allowed before root tag.). Also,
>> tried variations of FORCECREATE, PARSER.
>>
>> So, tried using a standard wildcard like "*." which returns all files
>> without an extension. This resulted in BaseX not loading any documents.
>>
>> I do have some work-arounds for now...
>>
>> Thx/chad
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christian Grün [mailto:
christian.gruen@gmail.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:40 PM
>> To: Chad Lancour
>> Cc:
basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
>> Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Force default file type to XML during "add to"
>> command?
>>
>> Hi Chad,
>>
>>> Just want to start out with KUDOS on the project, contributors, and
>>> technology. Amazing.
>>
>> thanks for the kudos, always welcome!
>>
>>> Question: All of the 300k+ xml files do NOT have a file extension. Is
>> there
>>> a way to have BaseX default to xml if there is no file type? Is there
>>> perhaps some other way to handle this other than recursively renaming all
>>> the files?
>>
>> You're probably looking for the "createfilter" option, which allows
>> you to define a glob syntax for fitering the input files; please try
>> this:
>>
>> basex -Vc "create db metadata; alter user admin xxxxxxx"
>> basex -Vc "open metadata; set createfilter *; add to \set1 ...
>>
>> Some more information may be found here:
>>
>>
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options
>>
http://docs.basex.org/wiki/CreateCollection
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Christian
>> ___________________________
>>
>> Christian Grün
>> Uni KN, Box 188
>> 78457 Konstanz, Germany
>>
http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~gruen
>>
>>
>
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