Tag: tips

Jeff Atwood touched an interesting topic yesterday, Sorting for Humans : Natural Sort Order. Let's sort the following strings: a, A, b, B, 1, 2, 10 The ASCIIbetical order is as follows: 1, 10, 2, A, B, a,...

Data & AI

Marc Van Cappellen December 13, 2007

Updating XML with XQuery 1.0

I was reading an interesting discussion yesterday on xquery-talk, replacing a node in in-memory XML.

How can one modify an XML structure through XQuery? In the future, the...

Data & AI

Marc Van Cappellen November 07, 2007

XQuery questions you've always wanted to ask (but never dared to)

When using a programming language, sooner or later we all end up trying to solve similar problems. When I enjoyed writing applications in Prolog or C++ (yes, many years ago; and yes, I said enjoy), I wasn't lucky enough to be able to search the...

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Minollo October 05, 2007