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basex - a node.js Basex client

This is BaseX client for node.js. Work in progress.

BaseX is an XML database. BaseX is a lightweight JAVA server that supports XPath, Xquery and XSLT. It includes Full Text search and Update Extensions.

Installing the BaseX Node client

The easiest way to install is using npm. This module is available from the npm repository

	andy@ThinkPad-T42:/tmp$ mkdir project1;cd project1
	andy@ThinkPad-T42:/tmp/project1$ npm install basex
	basex@0.3.0 ./node_modules/basex

Test it. This assumes BaseX is running on the host

	andy@ThinkPad-T42:/tmp/project1$ cd node_modules/basex/examples/
	andy@ThinkPad-T42:/tmp/project1/node_modules/basex/examples$ node Example.js 
	milliseconds: 0
	{ result: '1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10',
	  info: '\nQuery executed in 0.38 ms.\n' }
	end
	close
	andy@ThinkPad-T42:/tmp/project1/node_modules/basex/examples$

Installing BaseX

Requires Java.

  1. Download from http://basex.org/products/download/all-downloads/ tested against BaseX version 7.0
  2. run the basexserver script

Tests

..

TODO

Error handling, watch, reconnect...

Inspiration

Parts taken from https://github.com/mranney/node_redis