Querying a document collection does not seem to return non-XML files

[grantcv1]

I'm running the Alpha 3 Docker instance.

I'm finding that I can't see the PDF files I have installed alongside my XML documents.

This had worked fine with eXist-db and I've changed nothing other that switch to the FusionDB instance.

My simplified xquery is:

xquery version "3.1";
declare namespace d="DAV:";
for $doc in collection('/repository/grantcv1')
  return (
    let $fileURI := base-uri($doc)
    return <d:response xmlns:d="DAV:">
      <d:href>{$fileURI}</d:href>
    </d:response>
  )
 
I get all the XML files, but nothing else. I used to get the complete list of files in the folder.

[joewiz]

The behavior you see in eXist was true for eXist 5.2.0 and lower, but with eXist-db/exist#3349, the next release of eXist will match the behavior you see in FusionDB. The change was to ensure fn:collection() function would return proper document-node() nodes (containing XML data, not binary data). As an alternative for your use case, consider xmldb:get-child-resources().

[adamretter]

Thanks @joewiz. @grantcv1 The change was made so that FusionDB (and eXist-db) become more compliant with the W3C XQuery specifications. There is some explanation and details in the issue that Joe referenced.

For returning a list of URI as your query above is shown, it is actually more efficient to use xmldb:get-child-resources as suggested by Joe.

I hope that helps? Let us know if you need any more support in this area.