On 29. Mar 2018, at 16:37, Harald Freudenberger freude@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:

Hello BaseX team

I am about to implement a simple web application which displays some items and allows an user to edit one item. So my database is simple:

data.xml:

<items> <item> <id>1</id> <text>just some text</text> </item> <item> <id>2</id> <text>some other text</text> </item> </items>

Now I want to add a new item to this database. For first evaluation I'll use curl to insert a new node with:

curl -u admin:admin -i -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -d "<item><id>9999</id><text>hello</text></item>" "http://localhost:8984/rest/data/items"

The query to check if the new node has been inserted gives:

curl -u admin:admin -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -d "<query xmlns=' http://basex.org/rest'><text>//item</text></query>" "http://localhost:8984/rest/data"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 1416 Server: Jetty(8.1.18.v20150929)

<item> <id>1</id> <text>just some text</text> </item> <item> <id>2</id> <text>some other text</text> </item> <item> <id>9999</id> <text>hello</text> </item>

Fine. And now I'd like to try the edit an item. I start with fetching the item: curl -u admin:admin -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -d "<query xmlns=' http://basex.org/rest'><text>//item[id='9999']</text></query>" "http://10.0.2.2:8984/rest/data"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 280 Server: Jetty(8.1.18.v20150929)

<item> <id>9999</id> <text>hello</text> </item>

Now I do some modifications:

<item> <id>9999</id> <text>new text here</text> <newnode>a new node</newnode> </item>

And then I want to write back this item with:

curl -u admin:admin -i -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -d "<query xmlns=' http://basex.org/rest'><text>replace node /data/items/item[id='9999'] with <item><id>8888</id></item></text></query>" "http://10.0.2.2:8984/rest/crypto"

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 104 Server: Jetty(8.1.18.v20150929)

cvc-type.3.1.2: Element 'text' is a simple type, so it must have no element information item [children].

I tried <command> instead of <query> but the result is always the same. Am I doing something wrong here ? Is there a way to update a node with subelements in BaseX ? Please understand, I am C developer dealing with Linux kernel code most of the time so I am not really familiar with all the web application things.

Thanks and regards Harald Freudenberger

Hi Harald,

you probably have to use CDATA for the parser and single quotes(') for the shell.

``` $ cat file.xml <xml> <a> <b/> </a> <c/> </xml> ```

``` $ curl -u admin:admin -X PUT -T 'file.xml' 'http://localhost:8984/rest/demo' Database 'demo' created in 11.45 ms. ```

``` $ curl -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8984/rest/demo" -d '<query xmlns="http://basex.org/rest"><text> /xml </text></query>' <xml> <a> <b/> </a> <c/> </xml> ```

``` $ curl -i -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8984/rest/demo" -d '<query xmlns="http://basex.org/rest"><text><![CDATA[ replace node /xml/a/b with <foo/> ]]></text></query>' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:40:49 GMT Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 0 Server: Jetty(9.4.8.v20171121) ```

``` $ curl -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8984/rest/demo" -d '<query xmlns="http://basex.org/rest"><text> /xml </text></query>' <xml> <a> <foo/> </a> <c/> </xml> ```

``` $ curl -i -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8984/rest/demo" -d '<query xmlns="http://basex.org/rest"><text>replace node /xml/c with 123</text></query>' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:42:02 GMT Content-Type: application/xml; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 0 Server: Jetty(9.4.8.v20171121) ```

``` $ curl -u admin:admin "http://localhost:8984/rest/demo" -d '<query xmlns="http://basex.org/rest"><text> /xml </text></query>' <xml> <a> <foo/> </a>123</xml> ```

Hope this helps, Alex