I'm interested in 'a'. The two files are in basex, I need to write a query that will return the modified nodes at run time.

Due to the nature of the XQuery Update Specification, that's generally not possible. Sorry for that.

From: Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com; To: Anupam Bakshi bakshia@yahoo.com; Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de; Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Nothing gets printed after insert node Sent: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 9:09:06 PM

Are you mostly interested in

a) updating your data, and returning the modified node(s) as query result, or b) finding the correct updating query to modify your data? ___________________________

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Here is what I actually want to do. Maybe someone can suggest a straightforward way.

File : sample1.xml

<P>  <M id="1"/>  <M id="2"/>  <M id="3"/> </P>

File: result1.xml

<Q>  <R id="1"/>  <R id="2"/> </Q>

Desired output :

<P>  <M id="1">     <R id="1"/>   </M>   <M id="2">     <R id="2"/>   </M>  <M id="3"/> </P>

So insert the node from 2nd file into 1st where the ids match.

Thanks, Amupam

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From: Christian Grün christian.gruen@gmail.com To: Anupam Bakshi bakshia@yahoo.com Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 12:02 PM Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Nothing gets printed after insert node

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Unfortunately I did not see how I can return the value into a variable for further processing. Is there some other way to do it?

Did you already try db:output()?