Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
(Sorry I’m a bit late getting this out!) The focus of day 4 of the XML workshop was XQuery. Yet another topic I don’t have much experience with and have been slightly intimidated by up until this point. Patrick Yott showed us that each XQuery is typically based on the FLWOR module:
For
Let
Where
Order
Return
Using this basic model [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
The morning of day 3 focused on advanced XSLT; primarily conditionals such as <xsl:if>, <xsl:choose>, <xsl:when>, and <xsl:otherwise>. There was also discussion of XSLT functions such as position(), last(), and name(). name() is really helpful if you want to know what the name of a given node is or use the name of a given [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Day 2 of this workshop had us spending the morning focusing on XML-Schemas some more. We had the opportunity to markup a document in light of a particular schema, which was enlightening but not something I’d likely do as part of my job.
The afternoon session focused on XSLTs. Most of this was review for me. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 21st, 2007 No Comments »
This week I’m in Austin for ARL’s workshop on Web Development with XML. Over the course of 4 days the workshop is supposed to cover a range of topics from What is XML to XQuery. I signed up mostly for Days 3-4 but thought that after not using some of my XML skills in a [...]
