The HTTP URL format

This topic defines the format used by the MDEX Engine for Web services URLs.

This format is based on the standard URL format of http://<host>:<port>/<path>. In addition to the required path, an MDEX Engine Web services URL can include optional query parameters and fragment identifiers.

For example, in the URL http://host:port/ws/service?n1=v1&n2=v2#tag:

service is a service name that corresponds to an XQuery main module. Service names are case sensitive.
n1=v1&n2=v2 is the optional query part of the URL. These parameters may be specified after the <path> element by appending a ? followed by parameters. Parameters are <name>=<value> pairs, separated by ampersands (&).
tag is the optional fragment identifier part of the URL.