Code gets read more often than it gets written, so how it gets laid out on the screen is a critical component of maintainability. When a project involves more than one person checking in code, it gets even more important. So, here’s a peek inside the MarkLogic Engineering team’s process — our set of agreed-upon guidelines […]
Previous 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 (“[…]”) In this final blog of the series on XPath punctuation, we’ll learn about the “//” operator, a convenient shorthand for selecting […]
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: “//” We’ve already seen some examples of predicates that use square brackets (“[…]”). In this post, we’ll […]
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: “//” In this series, we’ve first taken a look at seen what “.” means, and then what […]
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: “//” The slash operator (“/”) in XPath is the connector you use to connect steps in a path expression. A […]