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

Cool, thanks! :)


Jostein


On 11 June 2013 13:57, Christian Grün <christian.gruen@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> ___________________________
>
> 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
>