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• Subject: RE: combining XML documents
• From: "Tomaz Kastrun" <tomaz@w...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:53:06 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <1132761632.25252.26.camel@l...>

Thank you for helpful information.

one more thing.
what is the best solution (Html+xml or??) to do the following:

read which xml files are stored in 3 different directories and publish this
results on web page (only the "title" tag to be shown), where one can then
select 1 or 2 XML file/s to show different information.

i've done it with XSL but it looks pathetic. is there smoother way?

thank you

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Probst [mailto:martin@x...]
Sent: 23 November 2005 17:01
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  combining XML documents


Hi,

> for step 3. i don't know what is the best solution? again java?
> XQuery? XSLT?

It depends on your application, but XQuery was designed to handle
combining information from different documents ("joins").
I.e. the typic query would be:
> for $a in doc('a.xml')/foo/bar,
>     $b in doc('b.xml')//baz
> where $a/@id = $b/ref/@id
> return $b
etc. pp.

> are there any learn-samples to do this?

There are quite a lot of tutorials on XQuery. For the impatient reader
the two from Michael Kay are very good:
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xquery_primer.html
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xquery_flwor.html

A bit longer:
http://www.datadirect.com/developer/xquery/xquerybook/index.ssp

Just Google for "xquery tutorial".

Regards,

Martin Probst
X-Hive Corporation


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