Hi Christian, Thanks for answering the mail. I don’t have that much experience with xQuery, but what you’re basically saying is to setup another database for archiving right?
Kind regards, Rob > Op 6 nov. 2020, om 18:03 heeft Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com> het > volgende geschreven: > > Hi Rob, > > Thanks for writing to the list. As promised, I’ll give you a quick reply, and > I can basically confirm what Michael has replied to you already: > > The existing modules of BaseX don’t provide a ready solution for versioning > features, but it’s perfectly feasible to build a versioning solution with > XQuery. If you use RESTXQ for storing and retrieving data, you could e.g. > move the current version of documents to an archive database and replace it > with the incoming new document. > > The discussed Database Module will give you some insight into how to create > new databases and add documents to existing databases. How much have you > worked with XQuery so far? > > All the best, > Christian > > > > On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 2:13 PM Rob <priv...@tjalma.com > <mailto:priv...@tjalma.com>> wrote: > Hi all, > > I first created an Github Issue for this question, but that’s not the right > play :) > > So hereby my question: > > I was wondering how versioning works in BaseX. > So I have a XML file, I store another version of that same XML file and > within BaseX there is some kind of versioning so I can retrieve both versions > of the XML file. > > I look into your mail archive, and I found the following mail: > https://www.mail-archive.com/basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de/msg07369.html > <https://www.mail-archive.com/basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de/msg07369.html> > > Here it states that with using database metadata (Database Module, > https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module > <https://docs.basex.org/wiki/Database_Module>), you can achieve versioning. > But I don't see anything about it in the documentation. So I was wondering if > it is a thing in BaseX (versioning), and how it's accomplished 👍 > > Thanks! > > Kind regards, > Rob Tjalma
