For returning specific XML documents of a database, you need to use the XQUERY command:

XQUERY db:open('greek', 'PROSE~aristotle~Rhetoric1')

All documents of the currently opened database can simply be addressed and returned via the context item (.):

XQUERY .

Hope this helps,
Christian


Am 11.03.2017 10:08 nachm. schrieb "mark bordelon" <markcbordelon@yahoo.com>:
In actuality, as you have surmised, no.
I wish to get the xml text of document.
So, for what I am attempting below ...

> list 
Name      Resources  Size     Input Path  
------------------------------ ----------
greek     2          2942906              
latin     184        9942769              
semantic  785        257685               

3 database(s).
> list greek
Input Path                      Type  Content-Type     Size   
------------------------------ ------------------------------
PROSE~aristotle~Rhetoric1       xml   application/xml  99387  
PROSE~CONVERSATION~ GreekPrimer  xml   application/xml  20260  

> open greek
Database 'greek' was opened in 2.9 ms.
> retrieve PROSE~aristotle~Rhetoric1

.. my intention is to have the xml content: <text><sent><clause> ...... </text>

From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
To: mark bordelon <markcbordelon@yahoo.com>
Cc: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] RETRIEVE

What are your intentions? Are you really interested in a raw representation of your input?

Am 11.03.2017 21:24 schrieb "mark bordelon" <markcbordelon@yahoo.com>:
Christian, thank you.
Can you give me an example of the syntax (e.g. command + param) of the RETRIEVE command in my case?


From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
To: mark bordelon <markcbordelon@yahoo.com>
Cc: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni- konstanz.de>
Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2017 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] RETRIEVE

Hi Mark,

Each resource is stored as either an XML document or a binary file (raw data) [1]. You can only retrieve resources as raw data of they have been stored as binaries.

Hope this helps,
Christian





Am 11.03.2017 21:16 schrieb "mark bordelon" <markcbordelon@yahoo.com>:
I am trying to retreieve the raw xml from a document and think I should use the RETRIEVE command, right? What is the ID that I pass as the argument?
Here is what I have tried with the error:

> list 
Name      Resources  Size     Input Path  
------------------------------ ----------
greek     2          2942906              
latin     184        9942769              
semantic  785        257685               

3 database(s).
> list greek
Input Path                      Type  Content-Type     Size   
------------------------------ ------------------------------
PROSE~aristotle~Rhetoric1       xml   application/xml  99387  
PROSE~CONVERSATION~ GreekPrimer  xml   application/xml  20260  

> open greek
Database 'greek' was opened in 2.9 ms.
> retrieve PROSE~aristotle~Rhetoric1
Resource "PROSE~aristotle~Rhetoric1" not found.