Hello France,

documents in BaseX can be added multiple times with the same path. You can take a look at the previous discussion here and for some explanation why it behaves like it does today: https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex/issues/429

If you want to replace a resource the simplest thing to do would be to use the db:replace function, see http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module#db:replace

Cheers, Dirk

On 08/20/2013 10:13 PM, France Baril wrote:

Hi,

Context: DB name A Collection B File C.xml with <p id="i1">Hello</p>

In BaseX Gui, DB A is opened. In the Properties window, browse to the file C.xml, say you want to add in under B and click Add. Repeat the operation (to replace C.xml, with a new update C.xml)

In BaseX Gui, try: for $x in /*[@id='i1'] return $x

You'll get this:

<p id="i1">Hello</p> <p id="i1">Hello</p>

If you try this: for $x in /*[@id='i1'] return $x/base-uri()

You'll get A/B/C.xml A/B/C.xml

Applying db:optimize won't change anything.

Basically, it looks like the content of the file is appended to the existing file. Expectation is that it should replace it.

Side effect: When we open the file in XML Oxygen through WebDAV, the file appears to be empty.

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