On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Alexander Holupirek <alexander.holupirek@uni-konstanz.de> wrote:

On 05.11.2012, at 17:40, Colin McEnearney wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Using restxq, do all queries have to begin with db:open('web_app_db')//myquery/here , or can the database be declared? Or set as default somewhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Colin

Hi Colin,

we use db:open all over the place.

(: ----------------------------------------------------- :)
module namespace _ = 'com.gmail.colinmcenearney.db';

declare namespace restxq = "http://exquery.org/ns/restxq";

(: Database name used throughout the application. :)
declare variable $_:MY-DB := '_catalog';

(:~ Show users page. :)
declare
%restxq:path("/show-users")
%output:method("html")
function _:show-users()
{
<div> {
serialize(db:open($_:MY-DB)//user/@id)
} </div>
};
(: ----------------------------------------------------- :)

Database name declarations often go to a constants.xqm.

Cheers,
Alex