Archive for February, 2006
The Bus (of 4) Came By and I Got On
In response to Ross Singer’s 4things tagging…
Four jobs I’ve had:
1) veterinary assistant
2) library circ desk student worker
3) cataloging technical assistant
4) library computer programmer
Four places I’ve lived:
1) Greensboro, NC
2) Chapel Hill, NC
3) Mountain View, CA
4) Pennington, NJ
Four countries I’ve visited:
1) Japan
2) China (one day trip in from Hong Kong)
3) Germany
4) The Netherlands
Four countries I’d like to [...]
XQ and Default External Variables
One thing that I really think XQuery needs is the ability to specify a default value for an external variable. I wrote a workaround for our XQuery servlet awhile back but, since I needed to update our XQs with the newest release of our native XML database (it supports a newer version of the spec), [...]