Archive for the ‘XQuery’ tag
Data Modeling Thoughts about XML Databases
Over the last couple of weeks I had the privilege of reviewing the progression of a presentation made by Michael Bowers at the MarkLogic 2008 User Conference. The presentation makes a compelling case that XML databases may have a much larger market share in the near future.
If you’re interested in my reflection on data modeling and a quick example of highly normalized or structured XML, it’s here …
XQuery books, tools, and pending new features
While working through the semantics of XQuery, the lack of an update feature was annoying. Though there’s now a candidate XQuery Update Facility as of last Friday. Also, Priscilla Walmsley’s XQuery book alerted me to some differences in the handling of style sheets between XPath 2.0 (used in XQuery) and XPath 1.0 (used in XSLT). By the way, I’d recommend her book if you’re writing XQuery and also oXygen as an XML editor. You can also find some great XQuery examples she’s posted here.
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