Hi Jérôme,

 

Thanks, sounds obvious! I will try it out! J

 

Best Regards.

Florian

 

 

Hi Jérôme,

 

thanks for your input. Following situation: I have two documents in different xml databases (basex). On the one side a business process model document (bpmn 2.0) and on the other side a requirements specification document. These documents have to be consistent. One approach to handle consistency is linking specific elements of both documents with each other. In my approach, i need to link activities (xml nodes) and specific requirements (xml nodes) with each other. So the second approach seems to fit best. I understand the syntax of this approach, but one time I have to evaluate this xpointer expressions. Is the evaluation implemented anywhere? Or how can I do this?

 

Maybe I even don’t need xinclude, but rather something like this (more similar to xlink; linking in an external document):

 

Business process document (xml database in basex):

<Package>

               …

               <Activity Id=”activity-id”>

                              …

               </Activity>

               …

</Package>

 

Business process document (xml database in basex):

<Requirements>

               …

               <Requirement Id=”requirement-id”>

                              …

               </Requirement>

               …

</Requirements >

 

Linking:

<Links>

               <Link> (linking activities with requirements)

                              <Locator href=”requirements-db” xpointer=”element(Activity[@Id=$activity-id])”/> (use xinclude here feels wrong)

<Locator href=”bpmn-db” xpointer=”element(Requirement[@Id=$requirement-id])”/>

               </Link>

</Links>

 

Is there something similar? Especially to execute xpointer? Or do I have to implement it on my own?

 

Thanks for your answers.

 

Regards.

 

Florian

 

 

Von: basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de [mailto:basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de] Im Auftrag von Jérôme Chauveau
Gesendet: Montag, 27. April 2015 15:07
An: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
Betreff: Re: [basex-talk] XLink and XPointer

 

Hi Florian,

The XINCLUDE Option is enabled in the default BaseX configuration.
Which kind of xpointer link do you need?

Those 2 inclusion types seems to be well-implemented is the Java XInclude support (xinclude implementation used in BaseX):

 1 - full document inclusion: <xi:include href='myDocument.xml'/>
 2 - Fragment inclusion: <xi:include href='myDocument.xml' xpointer='element(/1/path/to/fragment' />

Hope this helps,

Regards.

Jérôme


Le 27/04/2015 13:29, Eckey, Florian a écrit :

Hello,

 

i am actually writing my master thesis using basex for xml processing. I need to create consistency links between two xml documents, especially basex databases and its content. So I am certainly looking for xlink and xpointer implementations in basex. Are there any examples to do this with basex or if not, has anyone implemented an xquery version to execute it? I recoginzed that there are capabilities with xinclude. But I does not find any references of xinclude in basex, unless this: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#XINCLUDE

So has anyone ideas or experiences using xlink and especially xpointer with basex or xquery?

 

Regards,

Florian

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