Re: [basex-talk] Working with custom stores

-- Tim A. Thompson (he, him) Librarian for Applied Metadata Research www.linkedin.com/in/timathompson timothy.thompson@yale.edu El mar, 15 nov 2022 a la(s) 12:28, Christian Grün (christian.gruen@gmail.com) escribió: > Hi Tim, > > > Using the store module, is it possible to read and merge multiple custom > stores into main memory > > We could add an argument (or options) to file:read to allow entries to > be added to an existing main-memory store. > > > set a particular store as context for a query? > > The recommended approach is to invoke store:read before any other > operation in the query. Please note, however, that the store will be > globally available. If a second query runs on the same server and > opens another store, it will change the behavior of the first query. > For such use cases, it’s better to use databases. > > > Or, do I need to serialize the stores, e.g., as JSON and then create > databases for them? > > You could have a look at the new db:get-value and db:put-value > functions [1]: These functions have particularly been designed to > organize XQuery items in databases, making casts to JSON or XML > obsolete. > > Hope this helps, > Christian > > [1] https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module#db:get-value >