[MarkLogic Dev General] session.insertContent vsxdmp:document-insert

[Michael Blakeley]

That would be true for xdmp:document-load(), but xdmp:document-insert() 
does not rely on the filesystem. An XCC program could pass XML as an 
external variable of type xs:string to an XQuery module, which would 
unquote it, then doc-insert the result. For an example of this 
technique, see 
http://developer.marklogic.com/svn/recordloader/trunk/README.html (under 
"CONTENT_FACTORY_CLASSNAME").

But as Danny points out, XCC's built-in Content class is likely to be 
more efficient for most applications. One exception relates to Robert's 
other recent question: "Saving a document with properties". It's fairly 
simple to use xdmp:document-insert() and xdmp:document-add-properties() 
in a single transaction, while XCC's ContentCreateOptions API does not 
support document properties.

-- Mike

On 2009-05-20 10:38, Lee, David wrote:
> The other issue is “where is the source content”.
> If the ML server is on a machine which does not have local file access to the source content, then the ONLY way to get it there is with session.insertContent()
> which reads from the client machine.
>
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> From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Danny Sokolsky
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:37 PM
> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
> Subject: RE: [MarkLogic Dev General] session.insertContent vsxdmp:document-insert
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> I am not a much of a Java guy, so others might be better to comment on this one, but I think the difference is that with session.insertContent, you are using Java to stream in the content to MarkLogic Server.  With xdmp:document-insert, you are using XQuery to create the content in memory to insert.  If you have a large amount of content on the client machine (where the XCC program is running) to load, then it makes sense to use insertContent.  I believe this is what the open source project RecordLoader does (http://developer.marklogic.com/code/#recordloader).
>
> -Danny
>
> From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com [mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Runstein, Robert E. (Contr) (IS)
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:01 AM
> To: general at developer.marklogic.com
> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] session.insertContent vs xdmp:document-insert
>
>
> What is the difference between session.insertContent and xdmp:document-insert?  When using xcc is there any advantage to using one over the other?  Thanks.
>
> Bob
>