Re: Suggested addition to the File Module: file:temp-dir and file:temp-file

Dear Jostein,

after quite a while, we have now added your proposed functions in
BaseX, and we have added an additional function "file:temp-dir" that
returns the system’s default temporary-file directory [1]. I hope that
we’ll soon manage to add the function signatures in the EXPath File
Specification.

Best,
Christian

[1] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/File_Module
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2013/1/23 Jostein Austvik Jacobsen <josteinaj@gmail.com>:
> The proposed EXProc File Utils steps[1] are pretty similar in functionality
> to the EXPath File Module. However, I think the EXPath File Module is
> missing one important thing; the ability to create temporary directories
> (and files). I'd like to use XPath rather than XProc for this. So how about
> something like:
>
>
> file:temp-dir($prefix as xs:string, $suffix as xs:string) as xs:string
> file:temp-dir($prefix as xs:string, $suffix as xs:string, $directory as
> xs:string) as xs:string
>
> Creates a temporary directory. The temporary directory is guaranteed not to
> already exist when file:temp-dir is called.
> If the directory argument is not given, then the directory will be created
> inside the system-dependent default temporary-file directory.
> The operation will create all non-existing parent directories.
> The function returns the absolute URI of the temporary directory.
>
>
> file:temp-file($prefix as xs:string, $suffix as xs:string) as xs:string
> file:temp-file($prefix as xs:string, $suffix as xs:string, $directory as
> xs:string) as xs:string
>
> Creates a temporary file. The temporary file is guaranteed not to already
> exist when file:temp-file is called.
> If the directory argument is not given, then the file will be created inside
> the system-dependent default temporary-file directory.
> The operation will create all non-existing parent directories.
> The function returns the absolute URI of the temporary file.
>
>
> [1] http://exproc.org/proposed/steps/fileutils.html#tempfile
>
> Jostein

Received on Tuesday, 11 June 2013 11:58:39 UTC