Re: [Exist-open] eXist as standalone xquery engine

[Dannes W. <di...@ex...>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:25 PM, voiceinsight <
seb...@vo...> wrote:

> I'm wondering whether eXist can be used as a "standalone" XQuery engine,


Why not use Saxon?


> I tried doing this with eXist's XQuery.execute() method, using Sequence,
> AccessContext etc, but I couldn't figure how to dispense of a running DB
> instance.


You have a wrong idea of the eXist-db, it is not 'just an ordinary xquery
processor' that works on *files*. Queries in eXist are executed efficiently
because the queries run on the internal data structures of the database.
Only this way it is possible to query across multiple *documents*. In all
cases you need to have the database running 'somehow', e.g in embedded mode
(using the fluent API?). You'll always have the DBX files... somewhere.

regards

Dannes