In our Mirabel web application I generate an “Open in Oxygen” button for all the maps and topics where appropriate (although we haven’t yet implemented named users so it’s not quite ready for use).

This current challenge is where I’m generating a CSV file as a one-off report using BaseX locally and then just providing the resulting spreadsheet to the user who requested the report.

Excel macros is not an option for me.

I suppose I could just generate the command line value to be pasted into a terminal—that should work, if not maximally convenient for the user.

Cheers,

E.

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From: Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, December 22, 2022 at 10:20 AM
To: Zimmel, Daniel <D.Zimmel@ESVmedien.de>
Cc: Eliot Kimber <eliot.kimber@servicenow.com>, basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Possible to get line number of node?

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We don’t store any node locations in the database, that’s correct.
fn:path may be helpful to generate the Oxygen node path.


On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 11:21 AM Zimmel, Daniel <D.Zimmel@esvmedien.de> wrote:
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> I can’t answer anything helpful for the reliability of line numbers, but can tell you how we are doing this in a similar use case:
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> we make use of what Oxygen calls “simplified XPath index path” (https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/25.0/ug-editor/topics/opening-document-from-cli.html)
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> Roughly:
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> * we write out that path (“#element(1/2/6/15)”) to a Schematron diagnostics element
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> * in our frontend to Schemaron we generate a button which will take you directly to Oxygen
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> So, if you don’t have to care about other editors than Oxygen, this might be a simple and reliable way. At least to us, works like a charm.
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> Best, Daniel
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> Von: BaseX-Talk <basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de> Im Auftrag von Eliot Kimber
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 2022 23:14
> An: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
> Betreff: [basex-talk] Possible to get line number of node?
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> I’m pretty sure the answer is “no”, but is there any way from BaseX 9.6 to get the source line number a given node starts on?
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> My use case is I’m looking for specific elements and making a report of documents that contain them and identifying information about the elements to help with finding them outside of BaseX (i.e., in Oxygen where the authoring happens). I’m parsing with the “trim whitespace” option turned off and I’m not doing any DTD-aware parsing, so the elements as loaded into the database will match the source (no additional attributes or anything). So at least in theory BaseX could maintain accurate line numbers.
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> These elements don’t have @id attributes so no natural way to identify them, so it would be useful to be able to report the source line number as a guide to people fixing these elements.
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> I didn’t see anything in the docs so I thought I’d ask just in case I’ve missed some trick.
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> Thanks,
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> E.
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