Any type of business or individual who works with XML software will already know that this is a data-driven application which requires certain XML productivity tools. Productivity tools for XML are needed for enabling the entire …
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Not in a single XPath expression but what about writing a recursive function that takes the sequence and inspects the depth through the ancestor axis for every node? — Martin Probst EMC xDB developer Am 22.10.2010 um 15:20 schrieb trubliphone : Hello. I have an XML structure like this: I have some XPath to get the name of all children: “//child/@name” This returns the sequence “1.1, 1.1.1 , 1.1.2, 1.2″
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query to return value _and_ depth
Over the past few weeks, since publishing Smart Content in the Enterprise , I’ve had several fascinating lunchtime conversations with colleagues concerned about content technologies. Our exchanges wind up with a familiar refrain that goes something like this. “Geoffrey, you have great insights about smart content but what am I supposed to do with all this information?” Ah, it’s the damning with faint praise gambit that often signals an analysis paralysis conundrum for decision-making
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What’s Next with Smart Content?
> (I’d hoped that, by now, they’d have a more complete implementation; > one problem seems to be that they don’t get enough support calls > relating to XQuery support issues, and hence think it not widely > used) > I’ve worked on several commercial database products in the past, and it’s a familiar story. The pressure, via the support and marketing channels, seems to come disproportionately from the top 5% of users who are already so heavily committed to your product that standards conformance comes well down the list of things they need, when compared with things like fault-tolerance and parallel processing and the latest fashion in optimistic concurrency control. And marketing people are a bit distrustful anyway of features whose main benefit is that it will make it easier to switch vendors.
I had lunch last week with a senior executive at a major software vendor. I asked him how one of my former (non-MarkLogic) colleagues was doing. His reply: “Not so well. Expectations were set very high because of his past experience and in the end he didn’t hire strong direct reports and build a strong organization. Worse yet, when he was challenged on the quality of those people, instead of accepting that there may have been problems, he defended them. And defending weak people is the beginning of the death cycle .” The last sentence caught my attention because it’s a key decision that every manager must make. When your management comes to you and says “your people are weak,” I think you are faced with two choices. Say “no they are not” and defend them. Say “perhaps they are” and upgrade them
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Defending Weak People
What is hot in XML these days? I have been to a few conferences and meetings, talked with many clients, participated in various research projects, and developed case studies on emerging approaches to XML adoption. DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is hot
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What’s Hot in XML? Workshop on Smart Content Describes Leading-Edge Content Applications
Qizx is an embeddable, high-speed, native XML indexing and query engine written in Java (TM), with the querying and processing capabilities of a fully fledged XML Query implementation. ——————————————— What is new in version 4.1: * Qizx Server can now be installed in a few clicks thanks to a control tool that supports https, user accounts, handling of Windows services and firewall.
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[ANN] Qizx 4.1 released
I’m pleased to announce the first draft for the EXPath ZIP Module specification is now available at: http://expath.org/spec/zip To quote from the spec: ‘This specification defines a set of functions to read and write ZIP files structure and actual content. It has been designed as a general ZIP tool set for XPath , while it is expected to be particularly useful with document package formats based on XML and ZIP, as for instance [EPUB], [Open XML], and [OpenDocument].’ Though this is a collaborative work, the original design and implementation for this module was by Florent Georges. Florent’s Saxon ( Java ) implementation is currently the only free implementation of this specification that’s available
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[ANN] First draft of EXPath ZIP Module specification
As you know WCF supports three types of message encodings (Encoding is the process of converting serialized object graph data into a format that can be transmitted over a network or saved to a file for later retrieval. Encoded data can be fed into a deserializer…( read more )
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Comparing WCF Message Encoding Options
Read part 1 here , part 2 here or part 3 here . This is a sort of summary post of my MVVM Pattern 101 series, talking about the frameworks available for MVVM development. There are many open-source frameworks available for MVVM-based development.
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Model-View-ViewModel Pattern 101 (Part 4)
