Hi BaseX peeps
I’m running BaseX 8.6.1 on Windows, and I’m running into an issue I can’t explain. I am using BaseX to run some benchmarks. As a benchmark I am running different XPath structures to match on the same database. In other words, in a file of a hundred lines each line is an XPath structure, and with Perl I query each line and measure the time it takes. Simple enough, right?
The strange thing is that my script runs fine but it crashes on line 17, which is this XPath code:
//node[@cat="pp" and node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz" and number(@begin) < number(../node[@rel="obj1" and @cat="np"]/node[@rel="mod" and @cat="pp"]/node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz"]/@begin)] and node[@rel="obj1" and @cat="np" and node[@rel="mod" and @cat="pp" and node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz" and number(@begin) < number(../node[@rel="obj1" and @cat="np"]/node[@rel="mod" and @cat="pp"]/node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz"]/@begin)] and node[@rel="obj1" and @cat="np" and node[@rel="mod" and @cat="pp" and node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz"]]]]]]
Admittedly, it’s quite a long string, but I don’t see anything wrong with it and I don’t think the error lies in the XPath. The full trace is like follows:
[XPTY0004] Item expected, sequence found: (attribute begin {"6"}, ...). at C:\xampp\htdocs\grinding\BaseXClient.pm line 213.
at C:\xampp\htdocs\grinding\BaseXClient.pm line 213.
Query::exc("\x{5}", 133) called at C:\xampp\htdocs\grinding\BaseXClient.pm line 177
Query::execute(Query=HASH(0x3adac40)) called at SonarBenchNew.pl line 249
main::query_sonar("for \$node in db:open(\"WRPEE0000000treebank\")/treebank//node[\@"...) called at SonarBenchNew.pl line 176
main::loop_databases(ARRAY(0x31a2ae0), "//node[\@cat=\"pp\" and node[\@rel=\"hd\" and \@pt=\"vz\" and number(\@"...) called at SonarBenchNew.pl line 140
main::regular_sonar("//node[\@cat=\"pp\" and node[\@rel=\"hd\" and \@pt=\"vz\" and number(\@"...) called at SonarBenchNew.pl line 110
I have found that the XPTY0004 error is often caused by an order-by clause in XQuery but I don’t have that. The full XQuery for the XPath is as follows:
for $node in db:open("WRPEE0000000treebank")/treebank//node[@cat="pp" and node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz" and number(@begin) < number(../node[@rel="obj1" and @cat="np"]/node[@rel="mod" and @cat="pp"]/node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz"]/@begin)] and node[@rel="obj1" and @cat="np" and node[@rel="mod" and @cat="pp" and node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz" and number(@begin) < number(../node[@rel="obj1" and @cat="np"]/node[@rel="mod" and @cat="pp"]/node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz"]/@begin)] and node[@rel="obj1" and @cat="np" and node[@rel="mod" and @cat="pp" and node[@rel="hd" and @pt="vz"]]]]]]let $sentid := ($node/ancestor::alpino_ds/@id)let $sentence := ($node/ancestor::alpino_ds/sentence)let $tb := \'WRPEE0000000treebank\' return <match>{data($sentid)}||{data($sentence)}||{data($tb)}</match>
I don’t know if you guys can give me directions solely based on this. But if you could point me to a likely cause, e.g. input OR database contents, that would be great.
Thanks in advance!
Bram Vanroy