collection("d:/Work/purchaseOrder/xml")

results in:

[FODC0002] Resource "D:/Apps/BaseX/Work/purchaseOrder/xml" not found.

"D:/Apps/BaseX" is the directory of my BaseX installation.

The code "IO io= IO.get(input);" at QueryResources#data(...)[1] seems to be doing the strange concatenation. The method "IO#get(...)" calls IOFile#IOFile(...)[2] and in this constructor the "File#getAbsolutePath()" method call evaluates to the BaseX installation directory (installation == I've only a copied, zipped version of BaseX, I didn't install anything). After this checking the path "D:/Apps/BaseX/Work/purchaseOrder/xml" fails.

I couldn't fix the issue myself as I don't the implications of changing anything in the code (moreover changing something like IOFile), so I've replied to your email instead of creating a pull request on GitHub (although I could have created a ticket, but I'm too lazy for that after writing this email - sorry about that :).

Oh yeah, the other thing:

for $file in file:list('/path/to/directory', true(), '*.xml')
let $content := file:read-text($file)
return parse-xml($content)

using "d:/Work/purchaseOrder/xml" works as expected (however in the documentation of the function it could be noted, that it only accepts path strings; file URLs like "file:///c:/..." doesn't work).

Regards,

Kohányi Róbert

[1]: https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/src/main/java/org/basex/query/QueryResources.java#L132

[2]: https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/blob/master/src/main/java/org/basex/io/IOFile.java#L45

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

The bug has been fixed (along with the issue you mentioned on
StackOverflow); please check out one of our latest stable snapshot
[1].

Christian

[1] http://files.basex.org/releases/latest/
___________________________

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Christian Grün
<christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Róbert,
>
>> If yes, is that means that using BaseX one can only query multiple XML files
>> after creating a database for them?
>> If not, ... is this a bug? (I highly doubt.)
>
> you may be surprised to hear (..at least I was..) that this *is* a
> bug. We're currently fixing this; please expect an update soon.
>
>> (On a side note: something like DataDirect - supposedly - can do[2] would be
>> awesome in BaseX. Was this ever considered to include in BaseX?)
>
> There are various ways to do this in BaseX. One of them is to use
> file:list() [1] and the fn:parse-xml() function of XQuery 3.0:
>
> for $file in file:list('/path/to/directory', true(), '*.xml')
> let $content := file:read-text($file)
> return parse-xml($content)
>
> We also thought about overloading the collection() function with
> additional features, but we eventually decided against this approach,
> as it's already does too much anyway (or does too less, as you just
> noticed).
>
> Keeping you updated,
> Christian
>
> [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/File#file:list
>
>
>
> ___________________________
>
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Róbert Kohányi <kohanyi.robert@gmail.com> wrote:
>> BaseX's documentation and the following (an excerpt from an email on the
>> mailing list[1]) says this on the fn:collection function:
>>
>>> fn:collection() either returns documents of a database or of the specified
>>> location
>>
>>
>> From this it seems that it can return the documents of a specified location
>> (without ever creating a database), however the following query:
>>
>>> collection("<xml-dir>")
>>
>>
>> reports the following error (using both the GUI and the command-line):
>>
>>> [FODC0004] File or directory "File or directory "<basex>" not found." not
>>> found.
>>
>>
>> (Using Windows 7) I passed several kind of path to the collection function
>> ("c:/xml-dir", "file:///c:/xml-dir", ...), but none of them works. Also, the
>> actual path of "<basex>" in the error depends on whether I start the GUI
>> (<basex>/BaseX.jar) or the command-line (<basex>/bin/basex.bat); the
>> respective paths in these two cases are "<basex>" and "<basex>/bin".
>>
>> (Issuing something like doc("<xml-dir>/<xml-file>") works.)
>>
>> Is this the expected behavior?
>>
>> If yes, is that means that using BaseX one can only query multiple XML files
>> after creating a database for them?
>> If not, ... is this a bug? (I highly doubt.)
>>
>> (On a side note: something like DataDirect - supposedly - can do[2] would be
>> awesome in BaseX. Was this ever considered to include in BaseX?)
>>
>> My reason for doing a query like this is: I've just tried to ran it and it
>> didn't work, so I'm here.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kohányi Róbert
>>
>> [1]: https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/pipermail/basex-talk/2011-November/002213.html
>> [2]: http://www.xquery.com/tips_and_tricks/querying_multiple_documents.html
>>
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