Hi Hans-Jürgen, > it seems to me that function db:open() and collection() are equivalent. > [...]
the main difference of the collection() and doc() functions is that they can also access local resources: you may as well use them to create a temporary main-memory collection from all files found at the given local file path [1]. In other words, db:open() will be a little bit more efficient, and cause no surprises, if you know that your files are stored in a database. Hope this helps, Christian [1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database#XML_Documents _______________________________________________ BaseX-Talk mailing list BaseX-Talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de https://mailman.uni-konstanz.de/mailman/listinfo/basex-talk
