Help:COAP-3180/week7

Week 7 - COAP 3180

Topics Covered

• Termproject - Getting it done with Wordpress
• XQuery (follow-up)
• Digital identities

Classroom activities

• Installing the cformsII plugin for Wordpress as explained in Using the CformsII plugin to collect and display data

Task

• Create three XQuery scripts that extract three different data from a single large XML File

Submission Dates

• This homework is due at start of Monday lesson, week 8.
• Students must provide three XQuery scripts plus a URL of the XML file.
• Each homework counts 10% in your global evaluation. The four best homeworks will be taken into account.

Evaluation

• Three working scripts
• Complexity of the query
• Rendering quality, e.g. you get a bonus if you render in a (X)HTML page.

Tips for the homework

• Read my handout first, you may need to find some extra reading.

Links and teaching materials

Online software

• XQuery USE ME (XqUSEme) Firefox plugin, which is based on the (serious) Saxon B engine.

Teaching materials

• XPath tutorial - basics (exam topic, must know partly)
• XQuery tutorial - basics (exam topic, must know)

Optional reading

• Darshan Singh, Essential XQuery - The XML Query Language (currently broken ?)
• XQuery (Wikipedia)
• XQuery: A Guided Tour - Download the free tutorial today. This is an 80-page tutorial from the XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language book by Howard Katz, Don Chamberlin, Denise Draper, Mary Fernandez, Michael Kay, Jonathan Robie, Michael Rys, Jerome Simeon, Jim Tivy, and Philip Wadler, (ISBN 0-321-18060-7), 2004.
• XQuery (Wikibooks, for the ambitious).