Hi Eliot,

fn:environment-variable should do the job; proc:property [1] can be used to access system properties.

Hope this helps, Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Process_Module#proc:property

On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 7:01 PM, Eliot Kimber ekimber@contrext.com wrote:

I’m running BaseX in a Docker container started via docker-compose. I need to communicate some local configuration details to BaseX. Can set these as environment variables (e.g., using .env with docker-compose) but I don’t see anything in the docs that would let me access environment variables from XQuery.

Is there a built-in way to do this?

Thanks,

Eliot

-- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com

Hi Eliot,

Try the XPath function fn:environment-variable [1]

/Andy

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-31/#func-environment-variable

On 25 March 2017 at 18:01, Eliot Kimber ekimber@contrext.com wrote:

I’m running BaseX in a Docker container started via docker-compose. I need to communicate some local configuration details to BaseX. Can set these as environment variables (e.g., using .env with docker-compose) but I don’t see anything in the docs that would let me access environment variables from XQuery.

Is there a built-in way to do this?

Thanks,

Eliot

-- Eliot Kimber http://contrext.com