Publisher:
Texas A&M University Press, College Station
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Why XQuery for Humanists? -- 1.1 Built for the Kind of Data Most Digital Humanists Use -- 1.2 Easy for Beginning Programmers to Learn -- 1.3 XML and Digital...
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Why XQuery for Humanists? -- 1.1 Built for the Kind of Data Most Digital Humanists Use -- 1.2 Easy for Beginning Programmers to Learn -- 1.3 XML and Digital Humanities Data -- 1.3.1 XML Compared to Other Formats -- 1.3.1.1 JSON -- 1.3.1.2 RDF -- 1.4 XQuery Compared to XSLT -- 1.5 A Great Digital Humanities Community -- 1.6 Questions -- Chapter 2: Setting Up Your XQuery Environment -- 2.1 Installing Java -- 2.2 Setting Up BaseX -- 2.3 Setting Up eXist -- 2.4 Setting Up oXygen -- 2.5 Setting Up Saxon -- 2.6 Accessing Online Companion Materials -- 2.7 Preserving and Sharing Code with GitHub -- 2.8 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 3: Reviewing XML and Related Standards -- 3.1 History and Goals of XML -- 3.2 XML Basics -- 3.2.1 Writing Well-Formed XML -- 3.2.2 Writing Valid XML -- 3.3 XML as a Data Standard -- 3.4 XML Gotchas -- 3.4.1 Embracing Namespaces -- 3.4.2 Escaping Strings -- 3.4.3 Whitespace -- 3.5 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 4: Finding Your Way Around with XPath -- 4.1 XPath Axes -- 4.2 Node Tests by Kind -- 4.3 XPath's Abbreviated Syntax -- 4.4 XPath Functions -- 4.5 XPath Tips and Tricks -- 4.5.1 Wildcards -- 4.5.2 Value Comparisons -- 4.5.3 Selecting Multiple Element Names with the Union Operator -- 4.5.4 Selecting the "Nth" Item or a Range of Items -- 4.6 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 5: XQuery Basics -- 5.1 The Parts of an XQuery -- 5.2 Enclosed Expressions and Curly Braces -- 5.3 FLWOR Expressions -- 5.3.1 Binding Variables -- 5.3.2 Iterating over Variables -- 5.3.3 Filtering Results -- 5.3.3.1 A Short Note on Comparisons -- 5.3.4 Ordering Results -- 5.3.5 Counting Results -- 5.3.6 Grouping Results -- 5.4 Conditional Expressions -- 5.4.1 Effective Boolean Values.
Publisher:
Texas A&M University Press, College Station
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Why XQuery for Humanists? -- 1.1 Built for the Kind of Data Most Digital Humanists Use -- 1.2 Easy for Beginning Programmers to Learn -- 1.3 XML and Digital...
more
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Why XQuery for Humanists? -- 1.1 Built for the Kind of Data Most Digital Humanists Use -- 1.2 Easy for Beginning Programmers to Learn -- 1.3 XML and Digital Humanities Data -- 1.3.1 XML Compared to Other Formats -- 1.3.1.1 JSON -- 1.3.1.2 RDF -- 1.4 XQuery Compared to XSLT -- 1.5 A Great Digital Humanities Community -- 1.6 Questions -- Chapter 2: Setting Up Your XQuery Environment -- 2.1 Installing Java -- 2.2 Setting Up BaseX -- 2.3 Setting Up eXist -- 2.4 Setting Up oXygen -- 2.5 Setting Up Saxon -- 2.6 Accessing Online Companion Materials -- 2.7 Preserving and Sharing Code with GitHub -- 2.8 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 3: Reviewing XML and Related Standards -- 3.1 History and Goals of XML -- 3.2 XML Basics -- 3.2.1 Writing Well-Formed XML -- 3.2.2 Writing Valid XML -- 3.3 XML as a Data Standard -- 3.4 XML Gotchas -- 3.4.1 Embracing Namespaces -- 3.4.2 Escaping Strings -- 3.4.3 Whitespace -- 3.5 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 4: Finding Your Way Around with XPath -- 4.1 XPath Axes -- 4.2 Node Tests by Kind -- 4.3 XPath's Abbreviated Syntax -- 4.4 XPath Functions -- 4.5 XPath Tips and Tricks -- 4.5.1 Wildcards -- 4.5.2 Value Comparisons -- 4.5.3 Selecting Multiple Element Names with the Union Operator -- 4.5.4 Selecting the "Nth" Item or a Range of Items -- 4.6 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 5: XQuery Basics -- 5.1 The Parts of an XQuery -- 5.2 Enclosed Expressions and Curly Braces -- 5.3 FLWOR Expressions -- 5.3.1 Binding Variables -- 5.3.2 Iterating over Variables -- 5.3.3 Filtering Results -- 5.3.3.1 A Short Note on Comparisons -- 5.3.4 Ordering Results -- 5.3.5 Counting Results -- 5.3.6 Grouping Results -- 5.4 Conditional Expressions -- 5.4.1 Effective Boolean Values.
