Workshop


The Workshop is designed to help you anticipate possible questions, review what you've learned, and begin learning how to put your knowledge into practice.

Quiz

1.

How do the queries //vehicle[color='red'] and //vehicle[color='red']/color differ?

2.

How do you indicate that a query entity is an attribute rather than an element?

3.

How do you embed query results within other XML code?

Quiz Answers

1.

The first of the two queries returns vehicle elements that contain a color element set to red. The second of the two queries returns the color elements that are children of those same vehicle elements.

2.

Names that begin with @ are treated as attributes; names with no qualifier are elements.

3.

Enclose the query results in {}.

Exercises

1.

Download an implementation of XQuery, such as Saxon, and use it to write some queries against your own XML documents. You can download a free open source version of Saxon from http://www.saxonica.com/.




Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself XML in 24 Hours, Complete Starter Kit (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 067232797X
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 266

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