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
• [XQuery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery] (Wikipedia)