Just a quick post to highlight some (fairly) recent research from Outsell entitled XML: The Necessary Ingredient for Information Publishing (paid, $695) based on a survey run early this year. While the survey had only 30 respondents, so you must generalize with care, I still think the results are interesting and illustrative. Excerpt from the introduction on how XML can help information providers go web 2.0: In our view, XML should be a key ingredient in any publisher’s or information provider’s toolkit.

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XML, “The Necessary Ingredient” Research from Outsell

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 14:44, David Sewell wrote: > On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Joe Wicentowski wrote: > > > As far as your specific question, you could run a series of “if ($date > > castable as …) then … else” statements on the following datatypes : > typeswitch tests for node kinds, not data types, so the “if castable” > approach is probably the way to go (barring the custom data type > solution that Michael mentioned).

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I’ve talked about the Eco-Patent Commons before on this blog and I just want to advertise the fact that I will be speaking about it at the upcoming LES Annual Meeting in San Francisco . I’m always shy to point out any recordings or podcasts that get published on the web because I find it to always be a very humbling experience to hear myself speak. This may be something that’s true for about everybody but I guess even more so for those of us who have to speak in a language different from our native language

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Eco-Patent Commons at LES Meeting in San Francisco

Hans Juergen, I only have three words of advise, given your request: www.data.gov http://www.recovery.gov/ www.programmableweb.com/ Best regards Dana On Oct 2, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Hans-Juergen Rennau wrote: > Hello People, > > preparing an extensive XQuery workshop, I am looking for interesting > sample data. What I have in mind is data that > – are public and available online via URL (either static or as REST- > ful webservice) > – have intermediate complexity (> 50 data items, – must be in English (both tags and contents) > – may be dynamic, but not too ephemeral > – schema data welcome > > Should anybody have suggestions, I would be grateful! > > With kind regards, > Hans-Juergen > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk

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It’s very unhelpful to report that something “doesn’t work” without saying how it failed. And if you expected the expression to do something useful, it’s useful to say what you expected it to do: you can’t expect us to guess the intention behind incorrect code. If $q is a variable containing part of a regular expression , then you can include it in a regex using the concat function: matches(., concat(‘(‘, $q, ‘)*’) Regards, Michael Kay http://www.

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using a variable within a regexp pattern in XQuery

Hi Manual, if I understand you correctly, you wonder how you can compose a match pattern from variable and fixed parts, e.g. framing a variable term by an initial ^ and a trailing $, right? The solution is simple: use an _expression_ whose string value is the desired sequence of characters

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Anil, Since this is a question specific to MarkLogic Server, I recommend joining the mailing list at http://developer.marklogic.com/ discuss /subscribe.xqy?list=general You can also search the list: for example, try http://marklogic.markmail.org/search/?q=XDMP-UNEXPECTED+1.0-ml (the second hit is relevant: http://markmail.org/thread/2nuwbppxeemsrpjs). The problem you’re running into is that the shakespeare demo code is somewhat old, and was written in a custom dialect that is not quite XQuery 1.0

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Easy plug in tutorial that will keep the search engines informed of you fresh content with the XML Google Sitemaps plug in for WordPress.

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Setting the XML Google Sitemap plug in for WordPress blogs

Bill, Yes eXist provides mechanisms for transforming directly using XSLT without the need for Java – 1) XQuery extension function transform:transform(…) which Andrew already mentioned. 2) Some sort of custom pipeline using our Controller XQuery approach 3) XProc pipeline using our XProcXQ 4) XSL-PI Probably best if you join the eXist mailing list for such questions. 2009/9/28 Andrew Welch : > Hi Bill, > > The best thing to do is sign up to one of the mailing lists: > > “xquery talk” http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk > > “xml dev” http://www.xml.org/xml-dev/ > > Ask your question there, hopefully get a helpful response, and then > the email chain gets archived so its useful for anyone encountering a > similar problem in the future

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Re: Combining XSLT 2.0′s Grouping with eXist

Today is One Web Day ! Since 1994 W3C has sought to ensure the Web is available to all people, from anywhere, on any device. Today I’d like to invite people to help build One Web by: Learning about the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and either (1) building your own customized checklist for How to Meet WCAG 2.0 or (2) putting together a customized web accessibility business case for your organization ; Reaching more people by learning about the quick tips for internationalization ; Cleaning up the Web and showing support for standards by using the W3C validator services ; Checking to see if your pages are mobileOK . Happy One Web Day! We’d love to hear your ideas for building One Web

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Let’s Make Every Day One Web Day!