Save a collection of XML documents from eXist-db onto the file system, with XQuery

save-collection-to-disk.xq

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"))

Hi Joe.
I've been looking on the internet how to save non xml file from exist db to local disk through browser's Save File dialog and found your example.
If you have a time maybe you could look at this and tell me what is wrong with it?

<xf:trigger appearance="xxforms:download">
 <xf:label>log link</xf:label>
 <xf:action ev:event="DOMActivate">
  <xf:load show="new">
   <xf:resource value="logLink"/>
  </xf:load>
 </xf:action>
</xf:trigger>

<logLink>
    {concat(request:get-scheme(), "://", request:get-server-name(),":", '8080', '/exist/rest/db/zips/Report4.7z')} 
</logLink>

I do not get save file dialog and browser tries to open the file as XML which it obviously can't do.

@OleksiL Sorry I didn't see your comment until now - GitHub doesn't send notifications when users leave comments in Gist. 👎 If you're still having this problem, please post your question to exist-open.