[xquery-talk] Changing the content of an XML document

[John Snelson]

Hi Georg,

The identity transform will work, and is essentially the same as the 
transformation function that Wolfgang suggests. However I think a 
transform expression is easier to understand if eXist supports XQuery 
Update:

copy $a := $tree
modify replace value of node $a//subnode with
   if($condition) then "some text" else "some other text"
return $a

John

Christian Schlaefcke wrote:
> Hi Georg,
> 
> take a look at this thread:
> http://www.stylusstudio.com/xquerytalk/200808/002828.html
> 
> I had a similar problem exept I wanted to delete certain nodes instead of
> replacing them.
> 
> Espacially the "identity transform"
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_transform) hint was very helpful
> and it sounds as it could help you with your problem too.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
> 
>>> Wolfgang [mailto:wolfgang at exist-db.org] wrote:
>>>
>>>> This means, in the script I load the XML file into a
>>>> local variable using the doc() function and return the result to the
>>>> client.
>>>  >
>>>  > But now, occationally some of the content of the file has
>>> to be altered.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure I completely understand the question. Is the document
>>> stored in the db or do you load it from the filesystem? And
>>> do you only
>>> need to temporarily change some content of that file (in which case I
>>> would probably call an XSLT) or permanently (use XQuery
>>> update extensions)?
>> Actually I can reduce my question to the following: Assuming I have a
>> variable which stores a node-tree like that
>>
>> let $tree :=
>>   <node>
>>     <subnode>
>>       some text
>>     </subnode>
>>   </node>
>>
>> In reality $tree is the entire XML file which I want to send back to the
>> client. Now, depending on some conditions I want to change the content
>> of <subnode> "some text" to "some other text", before sending it. I
>> don't actually want to alter the file in the database, just the message
>> that I'm sending.
>>
>> If I placed the XML-file inside the script, I would write something like
>>
>> <node>
>>   <subnode>
>>   {
>>     if ($condition)
>>     then "some text"
>>     else "some other text"
>>   }
>>   </subnode>
>> </node>
>>
>> But since I have a couple of not too small XML files I fear that this
>> will get a bit overcrwoded.
>> Do you understand what I mean?
>>
>> Best,
>> Georg
> 
> 
> 
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