Re: [Exist-open] Validation and xdb:store

[Ralf J. <ral...@gm...>]

Hi,

> xdb:store works above eXist-db's collection mechanism. Validation can
> be enabled on a per-collection basis, you would use a catalog file to
> make the locations of the dtd's available to eXist-db.

> I suspect that once you split your document into smaller parts then it
> is no longer valid with respect to your DTD so  that makes sense. If
> you are going to split up, then I would recommend modifying your DTD
> to support that also.
> 
> 
> If you have validation working correctly you should not need to turn
> it on and off here, if you modify your dataset, i.e. by splitting
> documents up into smaller fragment documents, then you will also need
> to adjust your DTD or create new DTD's to support this.
The extracted document is an exact subset of the existing one... like this:
<list><item/><item/><item/></list>
The DTD describes the "list", and I store the "item"s. So, their structure is 
already described in the DTD. Storing one of the items manually using the Java 
Client works fine.
However, my problems is that I do not know how to tell the parser which DTD to 
use. I added the DTDs to the catalog so that I could add them with the Java 
Client, and when I store a file beginning with
<!DOCTYPE item SYSTEM "list.dtd" >
(where "list.dtd" contains the definition of the full list, which of course 
includes the items)
that works. But of course the fragment I save sing XQuery lacks that DOCTYPE, 
and since it is not an actual XML node, I have no clue how to add it to the 
node I want to store. Or is eXist supposed to look through all DTDs specified 
in the catalog and choose one that fits?

Kind regards,
Ralf Jung