Archive for the ‘XQuery’ Category
Elsevier XQuery Challenge
Elsevier has been doing cool things with XQuery for awhile now. Now, they are holding a contest where each contestant will get access to 7,500 full-text XML articles from Elsevier journals. The winner will be the one that can develop the best “unique yet useful web-based journal article rendering application.”
So all you library-land XQuery hackers [...]
MARC2Solr (Slight Return)
Awhile back, Andrew Nagy posted an XSLT for turning MARCXML into Solr’s XML indexing format. I thought it would be fun to take his XSLT and do the same thing in XQuery. I think it is pretty much a 1 to 1 conversion.
For the upcoming Code4Lib preconference, I thought about forming an XQuery [...]
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awhile back but, since I needed to update our XQs with the newest release of our native XML database (it supports a newer version of the spec), [...]