Hello devs,
Roberto and I yesterday discussed that it would be useful to be able to load (compressed) XML collections directly into MonetDB/XQuery. The attached diff provides a new feature for loading multiple XML docs directly from tar files. Usage: "mclient -lxq -C <colname>" and pass a tarfile via stdin, see example below.
My question: is this useful enough to make it into MonetDB? And if so, is the current syntax appropriate. Comments are appreciated.
Greetings, Wouter
$ mkdir xmlfiles $ echo "<abc/>" > xmlfiles/aap.xml $ echo "<abc/>" > xmlfiles/beer.xml $ tar cf xmlfiles.tar xmlfiles $ mclient -lxq -C xmlfiles < xmlfiles.tar Copying TAR file into collection: 'xmlfiles' Name: xmlfiles/beer.xml Length: 7 Name: xmlfiles/aap.xml Length: 7 $ echo 'pf:documents("xmlfiles")' | mclient -lxq <document updatable="false" url="xmlfiles/aap.xml" collection="xmlfiles">xmlfiles/aap.xml</document>, <document updatable="false" url="xmlfiles/beer.xml" collection="xmlfiles">xmlfiles/beer.xml</document> $