Hello,

I am new to BaseX and am doing basic manipulations, but can't delete nodes/elements permanently from a Database.

So these are my databases:

> list
name              Resources  Size   Input Path  
----------------------------------------------
Example           1          34928              
Experiment_Owner  3          4651               
Store             3          14015              
TestbyIrfan       0          4541               
Users             299        86299              
Workon            1          4753               

6 database(s)


open Users
XQUERY /

<user>
  <fullname>null</fullname>
  <username>user590</username>
  <password>3b36431be670500f759191b1cc27adc3</password>
  <experiments/>
  <email>email</email>
  <role>ROLE_BEE</role>
</user><user>
  <fullname>null</fullname>
  <username>user591</username>
  <password>18b944141c4104d3a577516e7aa429</password>
  <experiments/>
  <email>email</email>
  < /span><role>ROLE_BEE</role>
</user>


afterwards to delete  the users I tried commands such as:

XQUERY delete node db:open("Users")//user        or

XQUERY for $v in /user where $v[contains(username,"user")] return  delete node $v/user


then the records disappear, the command  XQUERY /  doesn't show the records of users,  however when I do a command   list, 

the size of the database and the number of resources don't change. 

I tried to do an Export like:  EXPORT /root/BEES_CENTRAL/BaseXData/data   but no change....

So my question is how can I commit the changes made by Delete to disk permanently ?


Thanks a lot.


Regards,

Irfan