Re: [Exist-open] automatically create subcollections when storing documents

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@gm...>]

> How can I simply do with xquery, what can be done easily with ant when
> storing documents with the createsubcollections parameter of xdbstore?
> So I want to store a directory structure, and I want to keep that
> structure in the collection too. With ants xdbstore it's easy, but in
> xquery, xmldb:store-files-from-pattern() doesn't have a parameter like
> createsubcollections. Is there any solutions?

1) create a function in XQuery that takes a path, splits it into its
components and checks for every sub-path if the corresponding
collection exists or not. Create the needed collections with
xmldb:create-collection.

2) extend xmldb:store-files-from-pattern or xmldb:store to do what you
want. It should not be difficult to adopt the code from the Ant task.
See XMLDBStoreTask.mkcol.

If you choose 2), please send us a patch :-)

Wolfgang