That may not answer your question but I create DBs using a dummy xml und replace the whole (and only) file later:

db:create("`{$new-db-name}`", document {<_ xmlns=""></_>}, "`{$new-db-name}`.xml", $index-options)

Hello BaseX team,

This may sound simple, but didn’t find how to do it, what is the xquery for creating an empty xml document in a chosen database.

Thanks.

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