Hi Christian,
True. I forgot to mention that the 'stripns' option (as all other XML parsing options [1]) only applies to newly parsed XML strings.
But these strings belong to new documents being added using db:add.
Anyway, how can I strip the namespaces in my new database? I don't need them.

Anyway, maybe because the xml are not valid, I get always 0 hits unless I
ask to return the doc itself.

Hm, the stored data must be well-formed, otherwise it couldn't be
stored. And it will always be well-formed if you store it via db:add
(in XML terminology, validity requires a schema [2]).

Did you already have a look at the data stored in your new database?
Christian
I've used db:add. The data is not well-formed. It's just like copy&paste of the relevant xml. No headers.
This is how I've created it:
declare namespace gco = "http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gco";
declare namespace gmd = "http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd";
declare namespace gml = "http://www.opengis.net/gml";
declare namespace gmx="http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmx";
declare namespace sdn = "http://www.seadatanet.org";

declare namespace fn = "http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions";
declare namespace xs = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";

let $db := db:open("ENTIRE-CDI","Vertical_profiles")
for $x in $db/gmd:MD_Metadata/gmd:identificationInfo/sdn:SDN_DataIdentification
let $id := string($x/gmd:citation/gmd:CI_Citation/gmd:alternateTitle/gco:CharacterString)
  return db:add("CDI", $x, 'Vertical_profiles/' || $id || '.xml', map { 'stripns': true(), 'intparse': true() })

With kind regards,
Menashè
On 06/25/2015 03:05 PM, Christian Grün wrote:
Hi Menashè,


I've used  map { 'stripns': true(), 'intparse': true() }) in db:add, but the
namespaces were not removed, e.g. there is gml:beginPosition.

True. I forgot to mention that the 'stripns' option (as all other XML
parsing options [1]) only applies to newly parsed XML strings.


Anyway, maybe because the xml are not valid, I get always 0 hits unless I
ask to return the doc itself.

Hm, the stored data must be well-formed, otherwise it couldn't be
stored. And it will always be well-formed if you store it via db:add
(in XML terminology, validity requires a schema [2]).

Did you already have a look at the data stored in your new database?
Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Options#STRIPNS
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML#Schemas_and_validation