I used an old version of BaseX (7.0 I think) and made HTTP GET requests to application/xquery ressources in the database which evaluated them before returning the result of the evaluation. That way I could used predefined XQuery queries stored in the database. The following sentence is written in the documentation at http://docs.basex.org/wiki/REST#Operations : "If a resource with content type application/xquery is addressed, it will be evaluated first, and the result will be returned." But it no more the case in 7.2 and instead I get the query verbatim, not the result of the evaluation.

Indeed, Googling around I even found a bug correction made by Christian Grün ( https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex-api/blob/146d594931abe0143766203a329d8f68237de41b/src/main/java/org/basex/api/rest/RESTRetrieve.java ) to an old version of the code. We can see at lines 76 to 82 that an application/xquery ressource is evaluated first:

if(type.equals(MimeTypes.APP_XQUERY)) {
  // execute raw file as query
  final ArrayOutput ao = new ArrayOutput();
  session.setOutputStream(ao);
  session.execute(new Retrieve(ctx.dbpath()));
  query(ao.toString(), ctx);
  }

Thus, I tried to find the same sort of code in the actual 7.2 version but could not. So I am wondering if this is a wanted omission, and thus the documentation is out of sync, or if it is an unwanted omission and needs to be corrected. The code I checked is at https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex-api/blob/master/src/main/java/org/basex/http/rest/RESTRetrieve.java