Re: [basex-talk] write result to file?

On Tue, 2020-12-15 at 09:19 -0800, Nicholas wrote:

pardon, forgot to include:

https://tech.forums.softwareag.com/t/writing-to-file-using-xquery/67224

where michael kay says that's just not going to work.

That's not exactly what he says - Mike words himself very carefully most of the time.

If you want to run XSLT on the result of a query you can use fn:transform() to do that from within XQuery, and you can write the result with file:write(), yes. Using xsl:resut-document from XSLT won't write anything out in that situation but will put the results into a map that your XQuery expression can save to a file.

You could also use an XProc pipeline, of course. But it depends on your situation and needs.

Liam