The XQuery current-time function is used to retrieve the current time.
current-time()
Use the following XQuery expression to fetch the current time.
current-time.xqy:
let $time := current-time() return <results> <time>{$time}</time> </results>
Create a Java based XQuery executor program to read the current-time.xqy, passes it to the XQuery expression processor, and executes the expression. After that the result will be displayed.
XQueryTester.java
import java.io.File; import java.io.FileInputStream; import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.InputStream; import javax.xml.xquery.XQConnection; import javax.xml.xquery.XQDataSource; import javax.xml.xquery.XQException; import javax.xml.xquery.XQPreparedExpression; import javax.xml.xquery.XQResultSequence; import com.saxonica.xqj.SaxonXQDataSource; public class XQueryTester { public static void main(String[] args){ try { execute(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (XQException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } private static void execute() throws FileNotFoundException, XQException{ InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(new File("current-time.xqy")); XQDataSource ds = new SaxonXQDataSource(); XQConnection conn = ds.getConnection(); XQPreparedExpression exp = conn.prepareExpression(inputStream); XQResultSequence result = exp.executeQuery(); while (result.next()) { System.out.println(result.getItemAsString(null)); } } }
Put the above both files to a same location. We put them on desktop in a folder name XQuery11. Compile XQueryTester.java using console. You must have JDK 1.5 or later installed on your computer and classpaths are configured.
Compile:
javac XQueryTester.java
Execute:
java XQueryTester
Output: