==OPEN==
{{Mark|Updated in Version 7.3:}} name and path are now specified as two arguments
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| '''Syntax'''
|width='100%'|{{Code|OPEN [name] ([path])}}
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| '''XML Syntax'''
|<code><open name='...' (path='...')/></code><br/>
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| '''Permission'''
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| '''Summary'''
|Opens a the database or some of its documents. {{Code|[pathname]}} is the name of the database. If the name is further refined by a path, only some of optionally limited to the documents in with the database will be openedspecified {{Code|[path]}}.
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| '''Errors'''
|The command fails if the specified database does not exist, is currently being updated by another process, or cannot be opened for some other reason.
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