Re: [Exist-open] Opening a file in eXide without browsing

[Florian S. <fsc...@bu...>]

Hi Alberto,

there's already a direct way to open a file in eXide when path and resource name are known: Take the base URL of eXide (e.g. "https://exist-db.org/exist/apps/eXide/index.html" and append "?open=/db/path/to/your/resource.xml". Example:

http://www.exist-db.org/exist/apps/eXide/index.html?open=/db/apps/demo/examples/urlrewriting/index.html 

I'm not sure if there's a documentation for those URL parameters anywhere (I didn't find one). It seems that eXide accepts two URL parameters: open and snip, see https://github.com/eXist-db/eXide/blob/4fd7caf4c99e2a44120092323e44b0637adaaf5b/src/eXide.js#L40 - open will try to open the requested resources, while snip will show the snippet as new document.

Cheers,
Florian




> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Alberto Simões <am...@zb...>
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2025 22:12
> An: exi...@li...
> Betreff: Re: [Exist-open] Opening a file in eXide without browsing
> 
> 
> On Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 at 20:37, Alberto Simões <am...@zb...>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > Probably this is something available in a later exist version (if that is the case,
> just let me know). But, is there a way to open a file in eXide without browsing the
> collection?
> >
> > It happens that I have more than 120K files in a folder, and even filtering,
> crashes eXide completely :-(
> 
> Ended up writing a small python3 script to edit the file, as it seems the index was
> broken because of an invalid document ID. Nevertheless, having a direct way to
> open a file when you know the name would be great :-)
> 
> THanks
> 
> 
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