Storing xml file into eXist xml database with XQuery

Question

I'm noob with this stuff, so can someone please give me some example how to store an xml file (rss feed) into eXist database with XQuery? i would be really grateful. thanks!

P.S. is it possible to use YQL for this kind of work?

Answer 1

Take a look at the documentation on how to manipulate database content. You need the xmldb module.

I don't think there is any YQL-module for XQuery or eXist specific. I also don't think it would be any useful, as you have XQuery for this kind of stuff in XML databases. YQL in contrast is more like a SQL replacement and comes with all the pain of SQL-to-XML mapping. XQuery is much more suitable for XML data.

Answer 2

I've found it... Here are functions for storing:

xmldb:store($collection-uri as xs:string, $resource-name as xs:string, $contents as item())

or

xmldb:store($collection-uri as xs:string, $resource-name as xs:string, $contents as item(), $mime-type as xs:string)

but here you can find more specific functions for your need.

The bad thing is there are no examples of usage...that could be hard for beginners like me