Hi Andrew, This XQuery Update approach actually does not alter any record – a copy-modify-return expression only modifies a copy and is hence a simple, not updating, expression (Paragraph 2.4.5 in the specification : ” A transform expression is a simple expression because it does not modify the value of any existing nodes.”) Kind regards, Ghislain On May 12, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Andrew Webster wrote: > Excellent. I’ll give this a try

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We generally refer to MarkLogic Server as an XML server, which is a special-purpose database management system (DBMS) for unstructured information.  This often sparks debate about the term “unstructured” and the information continuum in general.  Surprisingly, while both analysts and vendors frequently discuss the concept, the Wikipedia entry for information continuum is weak, and I couldn’t easily find a nice picture of it, so I decided to make my own.

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The Information Continuum and the Three Types of Subtly Semi-Structured Information

* David Sewell wrote: > Given this query: > > let $string := “This is an introduction to XQuery ” > return ( > replace($string, ‘(introduction|intro)’, ‘XXX’), > replace($string, ‘(intro|introduction)’, ‘XXX’) > ) > > where both parts of the grouped expression are potential matches, is the > alternative to be matched defined by specification , or > implementation-dependent? “If two alternatives within the pattern both match at the same position in the $input, then the match that is chosen is the one matched by the first alternative.” — section 7.6.3 fn:replace in F&O.

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There is also a rule: If two alternatives within the pattern both match at the same position in the $input, then the match that is chosen is the one matched by the first alternative. (Though the example is a bit different from this case). Regards, Michael Kay http://www.

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Now that we’re done with the stellar Mark Logic 2010 User Conference, it’s time to ask everyone to save the date for the MarkLogic 2011 User Conference which will be held at the wonderful Palace Hotel in San Francisco on 4/26 – 4/29/2011. Our current plan is to have pre-conference training on Tuesday 4/26.  The conference will be 2.5 days, starting Wednesday 4/27 in morning and going through Friday 4/29/2011.  On the afternoon of Friday 4/29, we’ll have a supplemental session for MarkLogic partners.  (Note that this format slides the conference back one day in terms of what day-of-the-week we do things; we’ve done that because 4/24 is Easter and we don’t want people to have to choose between traveling on Easter and missing the pre-conference training.) PLEASE MARK THESE DATES NOW IN YOUR CALENDAR .  You can always clear them later if you don’t want to come.

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Save The Date: MarkLogic 2011 User Conference

One MarkLogic tradition that I borrowed from Business Objects is the kickoff internal video contest.  You create a contest where any group or person can submit a short video on any topic they’d like … and then see what happens.  As an employee, I like these contests because the videos are typically quite funny.  As CEO, I like them because they reveal organizational culture and pathology.

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Norm Walsh XML Rock Star Video

Announce. xmlsh version 1.0.4 update released http://www.xmlsh.org Announce. MarkLogic extension module 1.1 update released http://www.xmlsh.org/ModuleMarkLogic A command line shell for XML Based on the philosophy and design of the Unix Shells xmlsh provides a familiar scripting environment, but specifically tailored for scripting xml processes.

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Hi Kenneth, With an empty descript. dtd and an empty catalog .pen, I am not getting any error executing the following query with Saxon (which you seem to be using): normalize -space(data(doc(“DMC-param_file. xml “)/dmodule/idstatus//distrib/@level)) (it returns D) Perhaps the error comes from one of these two extra files (descript.dtd, catalog.pen).

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Problem with "Content is not allowed in prolog."

> Another nasty hack you could apply (if your return clause returns a single > item) is: While we are with nasty hacks, what about (assuming you know your input is e.g. only ASCII ): for $x in … order by if ($reverse) then translate(lower-case($x/key), ‘abcdefg…xyz0123456789′, ‘zyx…gfedcba9876543210′) else $x/key return $x Which is of course both a dirty hack and i18n averse.

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ordering results

After nearly six years at MarkLogic, we’ve decided to do a light refresh on our corporate identity, changing a few things The company name.  We changed this from Mark Logic (with a space) to MarkLogic with no space.  Previously, we had a subtle distinction where MarkLogic meant product and Mark Logic meant company. The logo.  The intent here was to promote the “Logic” in the logo.  The previous branding strategy was predicated on people calling the company Mark.  Hence the old logo had a big Mark and the little Logic.   In reality, people call us MarkLogic and we wanted a logo that reflected that. The color.  Marketing SVP Tracy Eiler brightened up the official MarkLogic red as a part of this process.

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