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Homework 4 - COAP 3180 Fall 2 2007
Summary
- Write some Xquery code to retrieve data from an XML collection
Part 1
- Find somewhere or create a file with some XML data (at least 1 page long)
- Write at least two different XQuery expressions to retrieve data from this file
Due: Monday Week 6
Part 2
To be announced...
Classroom activities
Open an XML file in an XML editor
- Launch XML Exchanger lite.
- In the left panel open all the files under xquery
- Click on the bottom tab with the books.xml file
- In the menubar select Transform->XQuery
- Note: You can find the xq file somewhere near the same place
- Repair the result file. There are some useless tags.
- Other examples files can be found on the N drive
Files from Essential XQuery - The XML Query Language
Also some more ambitious
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/xml/examples/shakespeare.1.10.xml/ (various Shakespeare texts)
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/proj/seed/catalog/net/xml/catalog-eng.xml (700k DITA document)
Reading and links
Reading
Reading
- Ronald Bourret (2005). XML and Databases, http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm
- Darshan Singh, Essential XQuery - The XML Query Language, http://www.yukonxml.com/articles/xquery/
- XQuery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery (Wikipedia)
Reference
Slides
- Prerequisites and catchup (if needed)
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xml-intro-edit.pdf (XML Intro)
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xslt-basics.pdf (XSLT basics)
- or http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xml-xslt.pdf (XSLT intro)
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xml-xpath.pdf (XPath and more XSLT)
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xml-dtd.pdf (Creating DTDs)
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xml-schema.pdf (Creating XML Schemas)
- http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/te/files/xml-ns.pdf (XML Namespaces)