The short answer to your question is “yes”, you can create whatever views you want over your content.

This is what I’m doing in my Validation Dashboard application, where I construct new documents that serve as indexes or views over other documents, capturing the result of time-consuming data processing applied to the base documents.

In my case, I have a body of source documents (DITA maps and topics) and validation reports over those documents generated by OxygenXML (also XML documents).

I load the source documents and the validation reports and then generate an index that correlates issues in the validation report to top-level DITA maps that ultimately refer to the topics and maps individual issues apply to. The report issues record the file system path of the documents, so I have code that converts those references into BaseX node IDs for fast indexing and retrieval.

Using this issue-to-dita-map index I can then present reports of issues by dita map, as well as other summaries of the validation issues (i.e., issues by problem code, severity, etc.)

Cheers,

E.

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From: BaseX-Talk basex-talk-bounces@mailman.uni-konstanz.de on behalf of Ben Engbers ben.engbers@gmail.com Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 9:23 AM To: Basex Mail-lijst basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de Subject: [basex-talk] BaseX and 'view'? [External Email]

Hi,

I am writing a blog for R-bloggers with the aim of raising awareness of my RbaseX package. The latest version is super fast! Loading and saving 740 xml documents from the R environment took only 34 seconds! Before I can use those documents I will probably have to convert them using xsl. I was wondering if BaseX, like Oracle, also has a 'view' over the original data? I can then define multiple views that are better adapted to the intended use.

ben