Tag: XQuery
XQuery processing: practice and experience
A special issue of the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin has just been released; the special issue is focused on XQuery, specifically on existing implementations and the areas in which those implementations...
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,...
XQuery for the SQL programmer – And performance?
In this last post of the XQuery for the SQL programmer series, I would like to spend a few minutes on performance. The...
XQuery for the SQL programmer – Why XQuery?
Over the last month, wearing our SQL-glasses we mastered the basics of XQuery. But wait... what we’ve learned up to now in the XQuery for the SQL programmer series is about “do in XQuery what you can do in...
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