Hi Eliot,

I believe to remember that (at least in BaseX) the URL of the expath-pkg.xml library module which will be imported from outside must match the name of the package (http://servicenow.com/xquery, in your case). See e.g. the example in the specification [1].

Best, Christian

[1] http://expath.org/spec/pkg

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 9:08 PM Eliot Kimber eliot.kimber@servicenow.com wrote:

I’m packaging some XQuery modules into an EXPath XAR archive and then installing them using the repo install command.

The command succeeds and my repo is listed by repo list but I’m unable to get the modules to import and I can’t see where I’ve gone wrong. I must have made some non-obvious (to me) error but so far I have not found it.

I’ve checked that my expath-pkg.xml against the working examples I have (functx and Schematron BaseX) and I don’t see any difference. I’ve also carefully checked all my namespace URIs to make sure they match.

Here is my expath-pkg.xml:

<package xmlns="http://expath.org/ns/pkg" name="http://servicenow.com/xquery" abbrev="now-xquery" version="0.1" spec="1.0">

<title>XQuery modules for ServiceNow Product Content processing and support</title>

<xquery> <namespace>http://servicenow.com/xquery/module/database-from-git</namespace> <file>database-from-git.xqm</file> </xquery>

<xquery> <namespace>http://servicenow.com/xquery/module/now-dita-utils</namespace> <file>now-dita-utils.xqm</file> </xquery> <xquery> <namespace>http://servicenow.com/xquery/module/now-relpath-utils</namespace> <file>now-relpath-utils.xqm</file> </xquery> </package>

And here is the structure of the resulting module directory after installation:

main % ls ~/apps/basex/repo/http-servicenow.com-xquery-0.1

content expath-pkg.xml

main % ls ~/apps/basex/repo/http-servicenow.com-xquery-0.1/content

database-from-git.xqm now-dita-utils.xqm now-relpath-utils.xqm

main %

And the prolog for now-relpath-utils.xqm:

module namespace relpath="http://servicenow.com/xquery/module/now-relpath-utils";

Trying to import in a trivial XQuery script, e.g.:

import module namespace relpath="http://servicenow.com/xquery/module/now-relpath-utils";

count(/*)

Produces this error:

Error:

Stopped at /Users/eliot.kimber/git/dita-build-tools/src/main/xquery/file, 1/88:

[XQST0059] Module not found: http://servicenow.com/xquery/module/now-relpath-utils.

So clearly something isn’t hooked up correctly but I don’t see any obvious breakage or violation of a required convention.

Any idea where I’ve gone wrong or tips on debugging the resolution failure?

This is 9.6.4 on macOS.

Thanks,

Eliot

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