Thanks Jens for the quick response, I really appreciate it.

There are a few issues that trouble a newbie like me ....

1. What are resources? How are they counted?

> create database IVS
Database 'IVS' created in 106.53 ms.

> list
      name Resources Size     Input Path
      ------------------------------------------------------
      IVS   1          4578
      test 2          1837327 C:/Program Files (x86)/BaseX

     2   Databases.
> list IVS
Input Path Type Content-Type Size
------------------------------------

0 Resources.

NOTE : 'LIST' command said 1 resource, while 'LIST IVS' said 0 resource.

2. In the documentation, it seems that documents and resources are synonymous.

> help list
LIST ([path])
List databases or documents in database.

These are minor things. I'm off to a good start. I just wanted to mention them, in case someone else comes looking.

Thanks for your help!

Anupam

From: Jens Erat <jens.erat@uni-konstanz.de>
To: Anupam Bakshi <bakshia@yahoo.com>
Cc: "basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de" <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] List all documents in a database

Hi Anupam,

you're probably locking for `LIST` and `DELETE`, also have a look at the [Commands documentation] in our wiki.

If there are still open questions, don't hesitate to ask again.

Kind regards from Lake Constance, Germany,
Jens Erat

[Commands documentation]: http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Commands

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Am 19.05.2012 um 14:01 schrieb Anupam Bakshi:

> Hello,
> I'm new to BaseX and XQuery, I wonder if someone can help with a simple question.
>
> I have added several documents to a BaseX database. Now I want to list and delete them.
> I didn't see commands to do that in the BaseX client 7.2.1.
>
> Any pointer or help will help me in understanding.
>
> Thanks,
> Anupam
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