[basex-talk] Call for assistance : BaseX as a preprocessor ?

2020-02-23 Thread maxzor
Hello, Thank you for your software which GUI has been my savior every time I needed to deal with XML. I would like to know if I can stream xml transforms, to pipe wikimedia XML dumps into a format acceptable by postgres copy ? I know very well SQL, but nothing about XPath or XQuery I manage

Re: [basex-talk] Call for assistance : BaseX as a preprocessor ?

2020-02-23 Thread Majewski, Steven Dennis (sdm7g)
What do you mean by “stream xml transforms? ? Do you mean stream a single large XML file ? A series of XML files, or stream a file thru a series of XQuery|XSLT|XPath transforms. Depends on what you mean by “stream” . I don’t believe BaseX uses a streaming XML parser, so probably can’t handle

Re: [basex-talk] Call for assistance : BaseX as a preprocessor ?

2020-02-23 Thread maxzor
Do you mean stream a single large XML file ? A series of XML files, or stream a file thru a series of XQuery|XSLT|XPath transforms. Possibly poor wording, I meant read a large XML file and produce i.e. a csv file. I don’t believe BaseX uses a streaming XML parser, so probably can’t handle

Re: [basex-talk] Database specific xquery modules

2020-02-23 Thread DYER Chris
OK thanks Markus, I was probably thinking more about this functionality for the library modules that get installed in the repo. I was not explicitly thinking about restxq modules/functions but being able to install these would also be useful. I think effectively what I am trying to achieve is t

Re: [basex-talk] Database specific xquery modules

2020-02-23 Thread DYER Chris
Hi Steve, I do not think what we are trying to achieve is necessarily OO related (although I can see why it may look that way). It may be more that we would be looking at another layer of encapsulation of some basex features. Your suggestion on storing the queries within the database and then ev