Hello --

So I've got a pattern where I want to:

1. perform some processing using proc:execute() on a directory tree of XML files (easy)

2. load the result of the processing (a parallel structure tree of XML files) into a new db 

   (in principle, easy; db:create() does this)

3. extract information from the newly created db and write that to a file (easy)

4. use proc:execute() to run different processing on the file written in step 3 (easy, I think)

5. load the result (thankfully a single file) and process it with a query (easy, I can stuff that in a function)

Ideally, this winds up as something invoked from a single query file as a sequence of functions because its eventual fate is to be part of an automated test that would ideally be a "run this one thing, look at the boolean result".

I hang up on step 2; so far as I can tell, there isn't a way to say "go create a database and then make it usable to these other modules that are guaranteed not to happen until db:create() has completed" but this seems like such a common thing to want to do that I feel like I must be missing something.

Thanks!

Graydon