Hi Paul,

just some thoughts about your database design: It seems like you have one large document. It might by worth thinking about splitting this up in much smaller documents. Many databases have a natural split, e.g. you customer orders. This way, you could do this validation in an acceptable time. You can still query the all documents/databases in a single XQuery.

In fact, almost all document stores benefit from managing many small documents instead of one big document. So this is not necessarily unique to BaseX nor XML native databases.

It might be worth the effort, because mapping XML to relational of course also requires some efforts and has its own advantages and drawbacks.

Cheers, Dirk On 02/21/2015 02:06 AM, pmenso57@comcast.net wrote:

Thanks for the replies, guys.

I need the schema enforcement up the hierarchy from what is being inserted to enforce uniqueness constraints (customer orders) as well as referential integrity (references to workcenters, suppliers, customers, etc.). Pulling the entire document and then validating would essentially be pulling the entire database--which would be ever-growing and won't scale. Schema-on-read is not sufficient for this application (the data in the database must be valid as it is used in realtime contexts), so I believe I will have to store the data in a relational database instead. :( I can imagine there would be difficulties in implementing such a thing in the database, so I am not complaining. :)

Regards, Paul Mensonides

----- Original Message -----

From: "Dirk Kirsten" dk@basex.org To: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 3:15:52 AM Subject: [basex-talk] Fwd: Re: schema validation

After Christians mail I realized I pressed the wrong reply button, so I sent I forward my response to the mailing list.

But good to see Christian says basically the same :)

Cheers, Dirk

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Re: [basex-talk] schema validation Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:06:53 +0100 From: Dirk Kirsten dk@basex.org To: pmenso57@comcast.net

Hi Paul,

no, not directly. You would have to update via your own update functions by using our validation module. You could invoke all updates through such functions, e.g. by using RESTXQ.

BaseX itself is not schema-aware.

Cheers, Dirk

On 02/20/2015 03:33 AM, pmenso57@comcast.net wrote:

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Hi all.

Is it possible to enforce schema validation on update in BaseX?

Regards, Paul Mensonides