Hi Tim,

There is no fixed collection layer in BaseX. However, a single database can contain millions of documents with arbitrary paths, and you can always specify target paths when adding or replacing documents. This also applies if you add more than one file at a time:

OPEN db1 ADD TO /colls/coll1 c:/xml/files/on/my/disk

…or via XQuery (and binary resources):

for $f in file:children('c:/users/user/desktop') return db:store('db1', 'coll/' || file:name($f), file:read-binary($f))

Our documentation on databases may shed some more light on this [1].

Best, Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Databases

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Tim Thompson timathom@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks, Dirk. Basically, I just want to create hierarchical collections within a database, with some subcollections being possible empty. But if I do CREATE DB parent, I'm not able to follow that with something like, CREATE DB parent/child. Is this possible by other means? (Sorry for the newbie question; I'm still getting familiarized with how things work in BaseX.)

Tim

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On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Dirk Kirsten dk@basex.org wrote:

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Hello Tim,

I am not sure I understand your question completely. Basically every way how you can add a document to a database you can specify a path, e.g. using the XQuery database module or by using the CREATE document to create a new database and initialize it. Is there anything specific you are looking for?

Also, please not that BaseX 6.3.1 is _very_ outdated... I don't think you can find much valuable information there except looking for the history of BaseX.

Cheers Dirk

On 08/12/2015 07:15 PM, Tim Thompson wrote:

Hello,

I see that I can create subcollections or paths within a database if I create the database then use the "ADD TO" command to add a resource at a specified path. Is this the only way to create hiearchical structure within a database? I couldn't find many details about this in the documentation.

I see that the changelog for BaseX 6.3.1 includes, [ADD] REST: support for hierarchical collections added; details will follow, but I don't see anything about this in the wiki page for the REST module.

Thanks in advance, Tim

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