Hi Cerstin, correct, new documents will aways be added after the existing documents, which is why the existing node ids won't change. The ids returned by "node-id()" won't change, too, in contrast to the values returned by "node-pre()".
Hope this helps, Christian ___________________________ > I will implement a web interface to edit and update specific nodes in an > existing database. This will probably be controlled mainly by the node-id. > Therefore it is no good idea to change the collection during the editing > process because node-ids would change. > > However, it seems that when adding a document to a collection it will be > integrated *after* all existing documents. Is it guaranteed that when > adding a new document to a collection, no existing node-ids are changed? I > would have to re-index the collection when adding new documents. > > Best regards > > Cerstin > -- > Dr. phil. Cerstin Mahlow > > Universität Basel > Deutsches Seminar > Nadelberg 4 > 4051 Basel > Schweiz > > Tel: +41 61 267 07 65 > Fax: +41 61 267 34 40 > Mail: [email protected] > Web: http://www.oldphras.net > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > _______________________________________________ > BaseX-Talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
