[MarkLogic Dev General] absolutepath: xdmp:document-getvs xdmp:uri-is-file

[Danny Sokolsky]

If it is under the App Server root, you can always use http to get it
(xdmp:http-get, for example).  Or xdmp:document-get.  Or you can put it
in a "global" variable in an xquery module that you import (the import
can be relative).

But putting it in the database is probably the best idea.

-Danny

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com
[mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Eric
Palmitesta
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:19 PM
To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] absolutepath: xdmp:document-getvs
xdmp:uri-is-file

Is there any way for an (.xqy) file to refer relatively to an (.xml) 
file on the filesystem?  Note that (.xqy) files need not be in a 
subdirectory of the Marklogic installation.

My motivation here is a localization file (en.xml, fr.xml, etc) 
containing keys and strings for i18n purposes.  This file can easily be 
inserted into the database, but editing then becomes tedious.

Eric

Danny Sokolsky wrote:
> I don't know of another way besides try/catch (which is great for this
> type of thing).  
> 
> -Danny
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com
> [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Eric
> Palmitesta
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 12:44 PM
> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
> Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] absolute path:
xdmp:document-getvs
> xdmp:uri-is-file
> 
> Shorter version of my question: is there a file-system equivalent of
the
> 
> fn:doc-available function?
> 
> Eric
> 
> Eric Palmitesta wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Hopefully I'm missing something and someone can put me on the right
> track.
>> It's fine to say "if (exists(doc('blah'))) then" because doc will
> simply 
>> return () rather than producing an error.  How do I do the same with 
>> xdmp:document-get?  Since xdmp:document-get errors with "file not
> found" 
>> (if a file is indeed not found), I was hoping to check if the call
> will 
>> fail before I make it.  The xdmp:uri-is-file function looks like the 
>> wrong one to use, though, because an absolute path means something 
>> different:
>>
>> The api for xdmp:document-get says
>> "On the filesystem, the path can be fully qualifed or relative.
> Relative 
>> pathnames are resolved from the directory in which MarkLogic Server
is
> 
>> installed."
>>
>> The api for xdmp:uri-is-file says
>> says "If the URI begins with a '/', it is relative to the root
> directory 
>> of the application server."
>>
>> Is a try/catch the only way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
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