Tag: XQuery
Transforming XML using XQuery updates
In one of my previous posts I blogged about the new W3C XML Query publications, including XQuery Update Facility.Talking to people,...
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...
W3C XML Query Working Group published new documents
Several new W3C XML Query publications have hit the street the last weeks.
First of all the XML Query Working Group published a Candidate Recommendation of XQuery Update Facility...
Joining XML with RDBMS, how and what are the consequences?
A few months ago, my friend Minollo blogged about XQuery against RDBMS: let the engine optimize your SQL. And last week again, a question on...
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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