This is related to an older open issue on GitHub [1]; I hope I can fix it with BaseX 10.

Best, Christian

[1] https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/1172

Eliot Kimber eliot.kimber@servicenow.com schrieb am Fr., 4. Feb. 2022, 01:54:

I think this is a bug:

I’m using db:create() to initialize a database with files from the file system. The OS is linux (but I see the same issue with macOS).

The docs all load without error, but then when processing the loaded content with code that uses base-uri() to get the base URI of a document, I get this failure:

*URI '/rome/product/human-resources/task/predict-assignment-group[1].dita' is invalid*

Which is correct—the square brackets must be escaped.

However, I didn’t create the URI, BaseX did when it loaded the data, which suggests that there’s a URI escaping action that isn’t being performed when the data is loaded: I would expect the URI to be “ *predict-assignment-group%5B1%5D.dita”* as returned by base-uri() (and as stored in the <resource> entry for the document).

If I do:

collection('/rome/product/human-resources/task/predict-assignment-group[1].dita')/*

I also get i*nvalid collection URI: '/rome/product/human-resources/task/predict-assignment-*group[1].dita'

Using db:dir to examine the <resource> entry for the file I see:

<resource raw="false" content-type="application/xml" modified-date="2022-02-03T22:44:29.107Z">predict-assignment-group[1].dita</resource>

So the brackets are not escaped there.

I can use the db:* functions to correct the paths (or just delete the nodes) so not a hard-stop problem.

Cheers,

E.

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