Hi,

well, the XQuery might be the same, but because you certainly use different BaseX instances they might use different properties (i.e. point to a different BaseX storage). At least for the examples you provide here it simply doesn’t add up. To make it clear: You say the result on the right is with the old BaseX version. One of the results is the string http://localhost:8080/def/crs/OGC/0/_Temporal_template. However, the string does simply not appear in your input XML. So, where does the difference come from?

Maybe it would be easier to simply forget about the old version and instead you could describe what results you are missing from the 8.6.7 vcersion? (you said data is missing)? I can hardly imagine that something is really missing in this case.

However, what certainly has improved (and thus: changed) with BaseX 8 (I think) is the serialization. It uses the adaptive serialization by default, which uses newlines as separators when serialiazing. However, you can switch to any other serialization method quite easily and use the old default xml by issueing “declare option output:method “xml”; in the query prolog.

Cheers

Dirk

Von: Bang Pham Huu [mailto:b.phamhuu@jacobs-university.de]
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Februar 2018 10:08
An: Kirsten, Dirk <Dirk.Kirsten@senacor.com>; basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
Betreff: Re: AW: [basex-talk] Big Surprise from outputs in version 7.3.1 and 8.6.7 ?

Yes, I'm sure I tested with old database from version 7.3.1 for both versions (7.3.1 and 8.6.7). Please see the exported XML from this database here: https://pastebin.com/ZjkFrE7B

with this XQuery: db:export("userdb", "./userdb", map { 'method': 'xml' })

At least I can see that query in version 7.3.1 doesn't return "new line character \n" as in 8.6.7 but an empty space " ". 

Thanks,

On 02/02/2018 09:46 AM, Kirsten, Dirk wrote:

Hallo,

are you sure you are querying the same collection? I am quite confused by your different outputs, because they seem to have not much in common (the results on the left almost exclusively return URIs pointing to opengis.net and the one on the right to localhost:8080?

If you are sure it would most certainly be helpful if you provide the input XML.

Also, looking at your query I don't really get why you write it that way, e.g. "for $i in $x return $i" is identical as simply "$x"...

Cheers
Dirk

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Von: basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] Im Auftrag von Bang Pham Huu
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Februar 2018 08:45
An: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
Betreff: [basex-talk] Big Surprise from outputs in version 7.3.1 and 8.6.7 ?

Hello,

I've been using BaseX to query an XML file in version 7.3.1 and it worked well. However, because of this problem https://www.mail-archive.com/basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de/msg10241.html
and I was suggested to use version 8.6.7 then I changed to use this version in a Java Web application which queries the old BaseX files from version 7.3.1.

However, I didn't know that this version changes created a very surprise result between version 7.3.1 and 8.6.7 (i.e: data is missing in version
8.6.7 from output result !!!).

Could someone tell me why it happens and how to use BaseX version 8.6.7 on BaseX database from version 7.3.1.

Here is the difference between 2 outputs on same old BaseX database version 7.3.1 (left: 8.6.7, right: 7.3.1) with same XQuery:
https://www.diffchecker.com/iCgLhRUx

The XQuery is:

 declare namespace gml = "http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2";
 declare function local:get-children() {
 let $x := collection('userdb')//gml:identifier/text()
 return
      if (exists($x)) then
           for $i in $x
                return $i
      else <empty/>
 };

  let $x := distinct-values(local:get-children())
  for $i in $x return $i

Thanks,