Re: [basex-talk] Create DB from large XML extraction without root element?

Hi Constantine,

you could use some Java code (see the attached file).

By the way, have you already created the database with CHOP=true?

Cheers, Christian

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS) C.Hondros@elsevier.com wrote:

Thanks, I suspected I would have to tokenise on an end element.

Cheers,

Constantine

From: Dirk Kirsten [mailto:dk@basex.org] Sent: 19 May 2015 11:46 To: Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS) Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Create DB from large XML extraction without root element?

Hello Constantine,

as this is not a valid XML document there is no way to add this to BaseX. You could write an XQuery, which reads in the document as a text file and chops the file into valid XML documents (of course you could also do this with some external line-processing tool like sed).

Of course, as you mentioned, adding a root node is the easiest option.

Cheers

Dirk

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Hondros, Constantine (ELS-AMS) C.Hondros@elsevier.com wrote:

Hello all,

I have a huge extraction of XML documents in a single file, without a root element, something along these lines:

<a>

 <b/>

</a>

<a>

 <b/>

</a>

…

Other than by editing it to add a root element, is there a clever way of creating a Basex DB from this?

Thanks for any pointers,

C.

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