Flux can split large XML files - called “aggregate XML files” - in the same fashion as MarkLogic Content Pump.

Table of contents

• Usage
• Controlling document URIs
• Compressed XML files
• Specifying an encoding

Usage

The import-aggregate-xml-files command creates many XML documents based on a particular XML element name and optional namespace. The command requires an instance of the --element option to identify the name of the XML element in each file where each occurrence of that XML element will result in a separate document being written to MarkLogic. The --namespace option must be used if that XML element has an associated namespace.

For example, consider the following notional XML file located at /data/people.xml:

<people xmlns="org:example">
  <person>
    <id>1</id>
    <first>George</first>
    <last>Washington</last>
  </person>
  <person>
    <id>2</id>
    <first>Betsy</first>
    <last>Ross</last>
  </person>
</people>

The following command uses --element and --namespace to create an XML document in MarkLogic for each occurrence of the person element in the document:

• Unix
• Windows

• ./bin/flux import-aggregate-xml-files \
      --path /data/people.xml \
      --element person \
      --namespace org:example \
      --connection-string "flux-example-user:password@localhost:8004" \
      --permissions flux-example-role,read,flux-example-role,update
  

• bin\flux import-aggregate-xml-files ^
      --path data\people.xml ^
      --element person ^
      --namespace org:example ^
      --connection-string "flux-example-user:password@localhost:8004" ^
      --permissions flux-example-role,read,flux-example-role,update
  

Controlling document URIs

In addition to the options for controlling URIs described in the common import features guide, you can use the --uri-element and --uri-namespace options to identify an element in each XML document whose value should be included in the URI. Using the example XML document in the above section, the following would construct a URI based on the value of each id element in the org:example namespace:

• Unix
• Windows

• ./bin/flux import-aggregate-xml-files \
      --path /data/people.xml \
      --element person \
      --namespace org:example \
      --uri-element id \
      --uri-namespace org:example \
      --connection-string "flux-example-user:password@localhost:8004" \
      --permissions flux-example-role,read,flux-example-role,update
  

• bin\flux import-aggregate-xml-files ^
      --path data\people.xml ^
      --element person ^
      --namespace org:example ^
      --uri-element id ^
      --uri-namespace org:example ^
      --connection-string "flux-example-user:password@localhost:8004" ^
      --permissions flux-example-role,read,flux-example-role,update
  

You may still wish to use options like --uri-prefix and --uri-suffix to make the URI more self-describing. For example, adding the following would result in URIs of /person/1.xml and /person/2.xml:

--uri-prefix "/person/" --uri-suffix ".xml"

Compressed XML files

Flux supports Gzip and ZIP aggregate XML files. Simply include the --compression option with a value of GZIP or ZIP.

Specifying an encoding

MarkLogic stores all content in the UTF-8 encoding. If your aggregate XML files use a different encoding, you must specify that via the --encoding option so that the content can be correctly translated to UTF-8 when written to MarkLogic - e.g.:

• Unix
• Windows

• ./bin/flux import-aggregate-xml-files \
      --path source \
      --encoding ISO-8859-1 \
      --connection-string "flux-example-user:password@localhost:8004" \
      --permissions flux-example-role,read,flux-example-role,update
  

• bin\flux import-aggregate-xml-files ^
      --path source ^
      --encoding ISO-8859-1 ^
      --connection-string "flux-example-user:password@localhost:8004" ^
      --permissions flux-example-role,read,flux-example-role,update