Hi Jan,

In terms of performance, it’s advisable to open the database in advance if you run several commands on it. Otherwise, you can simply address it via XQuery.

If you use fn:doc, the first path segment of the function argument must be the name of your database [1]. db:open will be the safer option, because there won’t be any attempt to find a non-retrievable resource on the local filesystem.

Hope this helps, Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Databases#XML_Documents

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 12:41 AM Jan Stapel janstapel00@hotmail.com wrote:

Hello,

Normally (few basex-versions ago) I did:

session.execute("open main"); session.execute("xquery doc("users.xml")//users");

But now, this results in basex interpreting the doc()-path as relative to it's home-directory thus cannot find the resource..

"xquery doc("main/users.xml")//users" gives the correct results.

Do we no longer open a database but writing the full path of the document instead?

Whats the performance of this if accessing multiple documents of the same database during runtime?

-regards,

jan