Recent Posts by Ron Hitchens

Topic: Getting Started with XQuery / Cannot install book code using eXist

OK, so I made a last minute change to where the source code is loaded and missed an update to the eXist loader script. I’ve updated the sources in Pragmatic’s svn repository, but if you’ve already downloaded the source-ball then you may also encounter this issue.

You can fix it by adding a single line to the file pragmatic/exist/loaddata.xqy in the unpacked .zip file. At about line 20, add a line to the function local:load-dir so that it looks like this (don’t forget the comma):

declare function local:load-dir ($coll as xs:string,
        $fsdir as xs:string,
        $pattern as xs:string, $mime-type as xs:string)
{
        local:insure-collection($coll),
        xmldb:store-files-from-pattern ($coll,
                $fsdir, $pattern, $mime-type, true())
};

That should do it – just hit the Load button again. Sorry for the hassle.