[Exist-open] How to upload files from the file system into existdb

[Immanuel N. <imm...@gm...>]

How do I upload files from my file system into existdb via xquery (not
through the web-interface)?

My idea is this:

xmldb:store("/db/xml/","my-file.xml",file:read-unicode("/my/path/my-file.xml"))

However, it seems that this way exist applies some pretty-printing on
my-file.xml during the upload. At least the /my/path/my-file.xml and
/db/xml/my-file.xml don't have the same layout (though they are possibly
the same in terms of XML infoset).

Is there a better way to upload files from the file system into existdb?

Regards
Immanuel