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BaseX offers access to the databases and documents using This page presents one of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdav WebDAV[Web Application]] protocolservices. WebDAV provides convenient means It describes how to access and edit XML documents by representing BaseX databases and documents in use the form of a WebDAV file system hierarchyinterface.

==Starting BaseX offers access to the databases and documents using the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdav WebDAV==] protocol. WebDAV provides convenient means to access and edit XML documents by representing BaseX databases and documents in the form of a file system hierarchy.

The WebDAV implementation of in BaseX is provided by a module (servlet) which runs in the BaseX HTTP server. Please check based on the [[Startup#BaseX HTTP Server|Startuphttp: BaseX HTTP Server]//milton.io Milton library] page for details on how to start the HTTP Server. The WebDAV service can either use the local databases or connect to a remote BaseX ServerCurrently, as described in the [[Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server|startup options]] pageonly Basic Authentication is supported.

==Accessing WebDAV=Usage=

The By default, the BaseX HTTP server makes the WebDAV Server service accessible at {{Code|http://localhost:8080/webdav/}}. If no default credentials are specified, they will be requested by the client ([[Web Application#User Management|see further]]). It can be accessed using by either with a <code>http:&#47;&#47;<httphost>:<httpport>/webdav/</code> or <code>webdav://<httphost>:<httpport>/webdav/</code> URL, depending on the used your WebDAV client. By default, afterstarting the HTTP server, the following URL will be provided: <code>http://localhost:8984/webdav/</code>.

==The WebDAV Clients==service uses the database user credentials to perform authentication and authorization. A default user can be defined in the configuration [[Web Application#Authentication|as described here]].

=Root Directory==Oxygen===* Choose <code>File -> Open URL...</code>.<br/>[[File:Webdav-oxygen01.png]]<br/><br/>* Enter the corresponding user name and password (if needed), the URL of the BaseX WebDAV Server, and then click "Browse".<br/>[[File:Oxygen02.png]]

===Windows Explorer===* Open "Map network driveIn the WebDAV root directory, all existing databases are listed..." by right-clicking on "My Computer" and click on "Connect to As new resources can only be stored inside a Web site that you can use database, it is not possible to store your documents and pictures."<br/>[[File:Webdav-explorer01.png]]<br/><br/>* Click "Next", select "Choose a custom network location" and click "Next" again.<br/>[[File:Webdav-explorer03.png]]<br/><br/>* Enter the URL address of files in the BaseX WebDAV Server and click "Next".<br/>[[File:Webdav-explorer04root directory.png]]<br/>If a message saying that the folder file is not validcopied on top level, this is because Microsoft WebClient is not configured to use Baseic HTTP authentication. Please check [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928692/en this Microsoft article] in order to enable Basic HTTP authentication.<br/><br/>* Enter a name for the network location and click "Next".<br/>[[File:Webdav-explorer06.png]]<br/><br/>* The BaseX WebDAV can new database will be accessed from the Explorer window.<br/>[[File:Webdav-explorer07created, which contains this resource.png]]<br/>

=Resources= =Linux=XML Documents== Uploaded files that start with an angle bracket will be stored as XML files. XML entities will be decoded during this process. If a file is downloaded, the characters with the following code points will be encoded as entities: Konqueror * 160 (non-breaking space)* 8192–8207, 8232–8239, Dolphin8287–8303 (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Punctuation General Punctuation]) ==Binary Files== If XML parsing files, Nautilusor if the first character of the input is no angle bracket, the file will be stored as binary resource. =Locking= The BaseX WebDAV implementation supports locking. It can be utilized with clients which support this feature (e.g. [[oXygen|oXygen Editor]]). [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-6.2 EXCLUSIVE and OthersSHARED] locks are supported, as well as [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-7 WRITE] locks. '''Note:''' WebDAV locks are stored in a database called <code>~webdav</code>. If the database is deleted, it will automatically be recreated along with the next lock operations. If a resource remains locked, it can be unlocking by removing the correspondent <code><w:lockinfo></code> entry. =WebDAV Clients= Please check out the following tutorials to get WebDAV running on different operating systems and with oXygen: * [[WebDAV: Windows 7|Windows 7 and up]]* [[WebDAV: Windows XP|Windows XP]]* [[WebDAV: Mac OSX|Mac OSX 10.4+]]* [[WebDAV: GNOME|GNOME and Nautilus]]* [[WebDAV: KDE|KDE]]* [[Integrating oXygen|oXygen Editor]] =Changelog= ;Version 7.7* Added: [[#Locking|Locking]] ;Version 7.0* WebDAV API introduced