Author: Minollo
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Why are you escaping my angle brackets?
In the recent past more than one XQuery user has asked me the same question: why is XQuery escaping my angle brackets? One of the examples of such problem looked something like this:[cc lang="xquery"]let $input := book 1 book 2 for $book in $input/book return (string(""), ... -
More on an XQuery format-number function
Recently Chris Wallace has been writing about formatting numbers in XQuery; as you may remember,... -
Generating non-XML files from XQuery is easier than you think!
There is an ongoing discussion thread on a popular XQuery discussion list. The topic is about how to generate a non-XML result (CSV in the specific case discussed there) from an XQuery. Seems easy, but there are a lot of little... -
XQuery, data sources and XML
Recently I started reading this Blog entry about LINQ and Entity Framework, and I noticed that the first sentence sounds very similar to what we usually say when we discuss DataDirect... -
Customer Showcase Webinar: DataFlux - Quality is #1
Interested in hearing from a customer of ours how they use DataDirect XQuery and DataDirect XML Converters? And why? Maybe you have a similar need and DataDirect's XML products can... -
How to split a large XML document in many smaller ones?
We often receive this kind of question: "I have a large XML document and I need to split it in many smaller documents; my document looks like this:[cc lang="xquery"] field1.1 field2.1 [/cc]...and I need to documents that don't contain more than N records each." Using... -
Accessing LDAP directory services through XQuery
As you know by now, DataDirect XQuery provides an easy and efficient way to aggregate data available in a variety of data sources and formats, like Relational Databases, XML... -
Stock quotes, CSV, XQuery and Web services
Not long ago I could rely on a variety of free Web services to fetch the semi-live quotes of my preferred stock tickers. Unfortunately, one by one all those Web services have either disappeared or started requiring a subscription... and for writing a few demos now and then, the subscription model...
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Using XQuery to join two Excel spreadsheets? Why not?
This afternoon I was having some fun (not!) reviewing some third party license agreements, when someone emailed me a couple of Excel spreadsheets saying "Hey Minollo! I have these two spreadsheets; one has a list of all employees since 1990 in Progress Corporation...
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