Handling undefined number of external variables - xquery

Question

I'm using baseX in a REST environment and I'm quite stuck trying to run an .xq script with an undefined number of GET variables (could be 1 but could be 10)
I'd like to make my xq script generic about that and construct my query independently.
Is there a way to achieve that, playing with array or sending differently my variables, or I dunno how ?
here is my API call
http://basex:8984/rest/?run=WEB-INF/data/test.xq&$tag=p&value=sciences&tag2=p&value2=test&tag3=testdzq
here is my text.xq
declare variable $tag external;
declare variable $value external;
declare variable $tag2 external;
declare variable $value2 external;
<documents>
{for $doc in collection("testdb2")
where $doc//*[name() eq $tag]/text()[matches(., $value )]
and $doc//*[name() eq $tag2]/text()[matches(., $value2 )]
return <doc>{$doc//titleStmt/title/text()}</doc>
}
</documents>
Thanks !

Answer 1

found this here (see http-params function) https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol18/print/Murray01/BalisageVol18-Murray01.html
(: BaseX example :)
(: In the controller ... :)
module namespace c = "http://balisage.net/ns/Bal2016murr0319/controller";
import module namespace request = "http://exquery.org/ns/request";
import module namespace item = "http://balisage.net/ns/Bal2016murr0319/views/item" at "views/item.xqm";
(:~ Returns a map containing the HTTP request parameters. :)
declare function c:http-params()
as map(*)
{
map:merge(
for $name in request:parameter-names()
let $value := request:parameter($name)
return map:entry($name, $value)
)
};
(:~ Calls the appropriate view, based on user input. :)
declare function c:get-view()
as element(html)
{
(: get HTTP request parameters :)
let $params := c:http-params()
return
if (map:get($params, "id")) then
(: the presence of "id" indicates that the user is requesting the item-level page for this unique identifier :)
(: call the item-level view :)
item:get-html($params)
else if ... (: call some other view :)
else if ... (: call some other view :)
else (: call the view for the home page ... :)
};