my colleague david just informed me about a correction: i mean to ask, why is
there _no_ xdmp:document-delete function?
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Shannon <shifl...@virginia.edu>
> Date: September 2, 2010 1:18:28 PM EDT
> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion <general@developer.marklogic.com>
> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] local:document-rename
> Reply-To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
> <general@developer.marklogic.com>
>
> Thank you, Michael Blakeley, for posting your function:
>
> declare function local:document-rename(
> $old-uri as xs:string, $new-uri as xs:string)
> as empty-sequence()
> {
> xdmp:document-delete($old-uri)
> ,
> let $permissions := xdmp:document-get-permissions($old-uri)
> let $collections := xdmp:document-get-collections($old-uri)
> return xdmp:document-insert(
> $new-uri, doc($old-uri),
> if ($permissions) then $permissions
> else xdmp:default-permissions(),
> if ($collections) then $collections
> else xdmp:default-collections(),
> xdmp:document-get-quality($old-uri)
> )
> ,
> let $prop-ns := namespace-uri(<prop:properties/>)
> let $properties :=
> xdmp:document-properties($old-uri)/node()
> [ namespace-uri(.) ne $prop-ns ]
> return xdmp:document-set-properties($new-uri, $properties)
> };
>
> It helped me to reclaim some lost time when I inadvertently renamed all the
> documents in a modules database (warning to all: in OS X Finder, if you add a
> WebDAV-connected folder to the sidebar, and rename the sidebar entry, you
> actually end up renaming the source directory, i.e., all the documents in
> your database!, not the shortcut/alias, which is utterly unexpected behavior;
> to make matters worse, it prefixed "http://"; to the URIs which is an invalid
> WebDAV pathname, so the documents appeared to be *deleted* at first glance,
> which was pretty unsettling).
>
> So, thanks, Mike, for helping me to get my app back, and I'm curious, why is
> there an xdmp:document-rename?
>
> Best regards,
> Shannon
>
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