Dear Moshe,

I agree that such a feature would be desirable. The original byte
offset of an XML node will not be preserved as we try to minimize the
size of our databases. One more reason is that such information gets
invalid anyway after database updates.

One question: What's your reason for looking up the data in the
original file? Maybe there's some chance to stay in the XPath/XQuery
world for the operations to follow?

Other suggestions from the community are welcome,
Christian

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Moshe Zuisman <zuismanm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> I am using base-X as kind of repository for my XML files, to perform queries
> over all files I use.
> Number and size of files are not a problem - it is some 100+ files , each
> one few hundreds lines. To be more specific - those are xml files of IzPack
> installation.
> I have loaded all my files into database and perform different kinds of
> queries there. It works great.
> Problem is - that after I have found desired data, I have to look at which
> file at which place it really is located. What I am doing now is - just copy
> into clipboard piece of resulting data and performing "search in files" at
> all my XML files directory. Finally - it works, but I am sure - there have
> to be better way to do it... Can I somehow modify my query to cause base-X
> to "say" me - where calculated result is located at original file system?