Thanks. I tried doing #2 inside the iteration and that did not work. I will try it your way and let you know if it works.
Wray Johnson (m) 704-293-9008
On Nov 19, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Michael Seiferle ms@basex.org wrote:
Dear Wray,
I tried to come up with a sketch of what–I think–might help you: https://gist.github.com/micheee/8a8734a1713a7121cab15eb3dfb389d9
Basically it boils down to:
- Fetch the JSON
- Convert that JSON to an XQuery item
- Iterate over each array entry and explicitly construct the XML representation you want
So in a nutshell, in XQuery 3.1, something like the following:
fetch:text('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Miserlou/c5cd8364bf9b2420bb29/raw/2bf2587...') => parse-json() (: Convert to XQuery item representation :) => array:for-each(function($map){ (: For each entry in that array, do :) element item { (: Construct an XML element named item :) $map => map:keys() => for-each(function($key){ (: For each key in the map, do: :) element { $key } { (: Return an element named $key :) $map($key) (: …and the value of $map($key) :) } }) } }) => array:flatten() (: Converts the array to a sequence :)
I assume you are using BaseX, so maybe the json:parse() function might be another option, that is based on our own implementation and will create an XML representation right away:
fetch:text('https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Miserlou/c5cd8364bf9b2420bb29/raw/2bf2587...') => json:parse()
For more info on our BaseX JSON-Module see: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/JSON_Module
As I can only guess what your XQuery code actually looks like I hope this comes somewhat close to what you want.
Hope this helps ;-)
Best from Konstanz
Michael
Am 19.11.2017 um 06:25 schrieb E. Wray Johnson wray.johnson@gmail.com:
I have a JSON file https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Miserlou/c5cd8364bf9b2420bb29/raw/2bf2587...
I want to load it into a database in a different XML format where I can use gml:Point in place of longitude and latitude as separate elements. However my for loop does not emit individual XML elements for each json object in the loaded array.