Re: [Qexo-general] Query on multiple documents

[Ali Mesbah]

Thanks Heiko. That's exactly what I needed.

Ali

As quoted from address@hidden:
> Hello Ali,
> 
> yes there is a way.
> in case you want to call via http somthing like 
> http://myname.file [and you mapped file to your xql
> servlet]
> and you want to call "myname.xml".
> 
> you could see the solution in the latest "nested
> document error" thread in this mailinglist.
> 
> hope that helps.
> 
> the servlet takes the uri and extracts the filename.
> 
> greetings 
> 
> Heiko
> 
> Friday, April 4, 2003, 12:21:50 PM, you wrote:
> 
> AM> Is there anyway of passing the name of the xml
> document to the XQuery so that
> AM> you could keeping the name dynamic?
> 
> 
> AM> As quoted from Per Bothner <address@hidden>:
> >> Ali Mesbah wrote:
> >> 
> >> >The question was actually if there is an implicit
> way of
> >> > doing this. You do not want to specify all the
> names of the
> >> > xml documents.
> >> >
> >> >something like: 
> >> >
> >> >for $doc in document(*)
> >> >for $phone in $doc//phone return ...
> >> 
> >> Of course that syntax is out of the question ...
> >> 
> >> An "implicit" way of getting all the XML files is
> >> probably difficult to add - not for implementation
> reasons,
> >> but because you need to specify what you want
> precisely.
> >> Instead, what you want is a *convenient* way to do
> so.
> >> One way might be
> >>    for $doc in document(files-matching("*.xml"))
> >> or even
> >>    for $doc in all-xml-files()
> >> 
> >> You still have to define files-matching() or
> >> all-xml-files() clearly, before even implementing
> them.
> >> (Note that most URL schemes have no way of finding
> >> all matching URLs, so you're basically restricted
> >> to file: URL.)
> >> 
> >> (Please cc the list in the future in cases where
> others
> >> may find the discussion helpful.)
> >> -- 
> >>       --Per Bothner
> >> address@hidden   http://per.bothner.com/
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Heiko                           
> mailto:address@hidden

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