Hey, Was this a silly suggestion, or are there simply no pathfinder/xquery people reading this list? :) Greetings, Tinco On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 21:46, Tinco Andringa wrote:

Hello MonetDB developers,

In my quest to develop an object oriented interface to monetdb/xquery on ruby using datamapper, I've stumbled upon the following problem. It is at this moment impossible to add a document to monetdb that does not have a source outside monetdb. The only function to add documents to monetdb seems to be pf:add-doc, which takes an url parameter with a location of an xml document it should import. To fully abstract the database from the ruby application, it would be nice if the developers could add a new (empty) document to the database.

Would it be a nice idea to have the following function:

pf:new-doc("document_name.xml"[, "collection_name.xml"[,"<some><initial>content</initial></some>"]])

It would make users of my api a little happier, and perhaps MonetDB/XQuery as a whole, a bit more normal ;)

Kind regards, Tinco Andringa