Greetings all.
I am curious about how basex supports the idea of modifying any given (or set of given) elements, say a user makes a query to select a bunch of elements for editing and wishes to add an attribute to an arbitrary subset (as in, not selectable with a query), how do I reference a particular element for later updating?
Sincerely, Josh
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Hi Josh,
I think the most widely used approach would be addressing items via ID — just as you would in a traditional database approach — this might involve adding IDs to all elements.
(as in, not selectable with a query)
With XPath you can select arbitrary parts of your document, maybe using XPath expressions would be helpful?
Hope this helps a bit, feel free to ask for more specific information :)
Best
Michael
Am 31.05.2019 um 20:14 schrieb Joshua Kordani joshua.kordani@speedcastwireless.com:
Greetings all.
I am curious about how basex supports the idea of modifying any given (or set of given) elements, say a user makes a query to select a bunch of elements for editing and wishes to add an attribute to an arbitrary subset (as in, not selectable with a query), how do I reference a particular element for later updating?
Sincerely, Josh
Yes. In addition, if you don't have IDs in place and elements are all in the same container, you could maybe use their position. Or a combination of an XPAT selector for the contianer root and then a sequence of positions for the elements to be updated. M.
On 03/06/19 09:46, Michael Seiferle wrote:
Hi Josh,
I think the most widely used approach would be addressing items via ID — just as you would in a traditional database approach — this might involve adding IDs to all elements.
(as in, not selectable with a query)
With XPath you can select arbitrary parts of your document, maybe using XPath expressions would be helpful?
Hope this helps a bit, feel free to ask for more specific information :)
Best
Michael
Am 31.05.2019 um 20:14 schrieb Joshua Kordani <joshua.kordani@speedcastwireless.com mailto:joshua.kordani@speedcastwireless.com>:
Greetings all. I am curious about how basex supports the idea of modifying any given (or set of given) elements, say a user makes a query to select a bunch of elements for editing and wishes to add an attribute to an arbitrary subset (as in, not selectable with a query), how do I reference a particular element for later updating? Sincerely, Josh
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