I solved the issue. The document i loaded had its own namespace set. <div>So &quot;declare namespace&quot; sorted out the issue. I am on way forward!!<div><br></div><div>Thanks all for a great open source product.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Subhro.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Subhro Moitra <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:smoitra@letsbuy.com">smoitra@letsbuy.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello,<div>I am getting to know Basex702. I downloaded the war and its receiving requests at <a href="http://localhost:8080/BaseX702/rest" target="_blank">http://localhost:8080/BaseX702/rest</a>  (tomcat servlet container)</div>
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<div>I am using curl to query the REST urls for results. I used the command below to populate the initial data</div><div><br></div><div><div><b><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">$$ curl -i -X PUT  -H &quot;Content-Type: application/xml&quot; -T &quot;/tmp/bv_letsbuycom_standard_client_feed.xml&quot; &quot;admin:admin@localhost:8080/BaseX702/rest/bvstandard&quot;</font></b></div>

</div><div><br></div><div>To confirm the PUT above i do this:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace"><b>$$ curl -i &quot;admin:admin@localhost:8080/BaseX702/rest/bvstandard&quot;</b></font></div>

<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">....</font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">......</font></div><div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">&lt;rest:database name=&quot;bvstandard&quot; resources=&quot;1&quot; xmlns:rest=&quot;<a href="http://www.basex.org/rest" target="_blank">http://www.basex.org/rest</a>&quot;&gt;</font></div>

<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">  &lt;rest:resource type=&quot;xml&quot; content-type=&quot;application/xml&quot; size=&quot;828733&quot;&gt;bvstandard.xml&lt;/rest:resource&gt;</font></div>
<div><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">&lt;/rest:database&gt;</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Another confirmation</div><div><br></div><div><b>$$ curl -i &quot;admin:admin@localhost:8080/BaseX702/rest/bvstandard/bvstandard.xml&quot;</b></div>

<div><b><br></b></div><div>The above shows the entire xml. So the data got loaded fine i believe.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Now i am stuck. a query like below is not resulting any results. The xml document surely contains the path and data.</div>

<div><br></div><div><b><font face="&#39;courier new&#39;, monospace">$$ curl -i &quot;admin:admin@localhost:8080/BaseX702/rest/bvstandard?query=/Feed/Product&amp;wrap=no&quot;</font></b></div><div>
<br></div><div>There are multiple Product elements under the Feed element. And the above query returns empty results. I know i am doing something fundamentally wrong, but not sure what. </div><div><br></div><div>However, a request like </div>

<div><br></div><div><b>$$ curl -i &quot;admin:admin@localhost:8080/BaseX702/rest/bvstandard?query=//@id&quot;</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Shows results as expected, ie all the attributes <b>id </b> and its values are displayed. </div>

<div><br></div><div>Please help.</div><div>Aren&#39;t the values of query param in the GET url above, a XPATH expression? </div><div>How to i execute a xpath on the DB to get the results, using the REST interface.</div><div>

<br></div><div>The main purpose is to get some 100 MB large xml file into BaseX and then query it using a php client and display results on a web page.</div><div><br></div><div>We at <a href="http://letsbuy.com" target="_blank">letsbuy.com</a> is really interested in integrating BaseX in our application for handling all the XML feeds we consume.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Please advice.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Subhro.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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