Save a collection of XML documents from eXist-db onto the file system, with XQuery
xquery version "3.0";
let $file-system-target-base-directory :=
(: Mac :)
(: '/Users/Joe/workspace/paho-trunk' :)
(: Windows :)
'C:\Users\wicentowskijc\oxygensvn\paho-trunk'
let $source-collection := '/db/cms/apps/tei-content/data/short-history'
for $doc in collection($source-collection)
let $target :=
(: Put the files into a corresponding directory in the file system :)
concat($file-system-target-base-directory, replace(base-uri($doc), '/', '\\'))
return
file:serialize($doc, $target, ("omit-xml-declaration=yes", "indent=yes"))