Posts in this series: Punctuation in XPath, part 1: dot (“.”) Punctuation in XPath, part 2: slash (“/”) Punctuation in XPath, part 3: “@” and “..” Punctuation in XPath, part 4: predicates (“[…]”) Punctuation in XPath, part 5: “//” When you write XQuery, a large subset of what you’re writing is actually XPath 2.0. In […]
Websphere users are accustomed to using embedded Websphere JDBC drivers from DataDirect, however they are no longer available in version 7.0.0.0. Not a problem! You can get the latest and greatest JDBC drivers directly from Progress DataDirect that IBM continues to recommend in their data source...
Recently, I built a MarkLogic web application using a lot of XSLT and a dash of XQuery. I was able to apply my understanding about how to optimize code to make a site like this perform better, so I thought I would share some of these insights with other beginners. Whenever MarkLogic evaluates an XPath […]
There have been many relatively recent dramatic improvements in hardware. Factors such as processor speed/design and network capacity appear to be making shortages of hardware resources very pre-2011. Not to mention falling prices that appear to not have hit bottom just yet. But with improving...