Xquery: Invalid URI format [err:FODC0002]

Question

I tried to run a query
query ‘"collection("C:\Documents and Settings\mxu\stripesdbxml.dbxml\")/profile/preference [@key=\'party\']"’
but it indicts that uri is in an invalid format from the very beginning of the query string.
and I am also confused that when i create a container in tomcat environment with a relative address, the container is create in Tomcat/bin directory, but not in my webapp/myapp folder.
How can I change this

Answer 1

Hi,
You can't use a windows path as an argument to the collection() function - as the error message says, it's not a valid URI. I would suggest not using a full path at all, in fact. You should open the container first using a command like this:
openContainer C:\Documents and Settings\mxu\stripesdbxml.dbxmlThe add an alias for the container, which is another name that you can access it by:
addAlias myAliasThen access the container from a query like this:
query "collection('myAlias')/profile/preference [@key='party']"In answer to your other question, containers can be accessed and created using a path relative to the location of the database environment.
John