Hi Christian,
I tried the approach of serving static web resources from RestXQ.
First I encountered a problem related to my js files being served to the browser as b64 encoded and the browser isn't able to interpret the script. So I modified the code in order to recognize text resources and apply file:read-text but then the < are escaped to &lt; and again the browser complains with syntax errors.
What am I missing here?
I'm trying with the latest snapshot, btw.
This is the code I'm using

declare
  %rest:path("/dasbox/ui/resources/{$resource=.+}")
  %rest:GET
  %output:method("html")
function ui:resources($resource as xs:string){
  let $path := file:base-dir() || 'resources/' || $resource
  let $mediatype := web:content-type($path)
  return (
    web:response-header(map { 'media-type': $mediatype }),
    if (matches($mediatype, "^text/.+")) then file:read-text($path)
    else file:read-binary($path)
  )
};

Thanks for your support,
Marco.

On 03/05/2016 02:59, Murray, Gregory wrote:
Hi Christian,

Thanks for the hints! I see that using webapp/static does work, but I prefer to 
keep all files related to an app together under one directory, so I'll use the 
second option you provided -- using RESTXQ.

Many thanks,
Greg

________________________________________
From: Christian Grün [christian.gr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 3:20 AM
To: Murray, Gregory
Cc: basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de
Subject: Re: [basex-talk] Web application static files

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your mail. If you are working with the ZIP distribution,
you could compare your code with the RESTXQ examples in the restxq.xqm
file.

I assume you get 404 because your static directory is a sub-directory
of bookplates. Here are two things you can do:

* Move your static directory from "webapp/bookplates" to "webapp"
* Deliver static files via RESTXQ (see common.xqm and the REST path
"/dba/static/{$file=.+}").

Does this help?
Christian



On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 6:43 PM, Murray, Gregory
<gregory.mur...@ptsem.edu> wrote:
Hello,

I'm new to BaseX, and I'm setting up a simple web application (on Mac/Unix, using the ZIP 
distribution of BaseX). I'm unable to bring in static files like CSS. Following the 
documentation and the "dba" web application that comes with BaseX, I have 
included the following in the HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="static/app.css"/>

to point to a file that resides here:

~/basex/webapp/bookplates/static/app.css

I have a module sitting here:

~/basex/webapp/bookplates/controller.xqm

with a function with these annotations:

%rest:path("bookplates")
%output:method("html")

When I point my browser to http://localhost:8984/bookplates/ the server successfully 
returns the HTML, but when the browser tries to load the CSS it requests 
http://localhost:8984/bookplates/static/app.css and the server responds with a 404 saying 
"No function found that matches the request" as if the server is looking for a 
RESTXQ function.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Greg

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