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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
Homework 6
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, http://www.yukonxml.com/articles/xquery/
- XQuery http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQuery (Wikipedia)