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XQuery Training Course
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Type
Course
This training provides:
A high-level overview and quick tour of XQuery
Information to write sophisticated queries, without being bogged down by the details of types, namespaces, and schemas
Advanced concepts for users who want to take advantage of modularity, namespaces, typing and schemas
Guidelines for working with specific types of data, such as numbers, strings, dates, URIs and processing instructions
A complete alphabetical reference to the built-in functions and types
Participants will also learn about XQuery's support for filtering, sorting, and grouping data, as well as how to use FLWOR expressions, XPath, and XQuery tools for extracting and combining information. During the training they will find out how to apply all of these tools to a wide variety of data sources, and how to recombine information from multiple sources into a single final output result.
About this course
Some knowledge of XML basics. Advanced knowledge of XML-related technologies is beneficial but not required.
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Subjects
- Prolog
- Syntax
- IDS
- Casting
- Java
- XML training
- XML
- SQL
- Design
- Typing
Course programme
- What Is XQuery?
- Path Expressions
- FLWOR (for, let, where, order by, return)
- Functions
- Joins
- The Design of the XQuery Language
- XQuery in Context
- Processing Queries
- The XQuery Data Model
- Types
- Namespaces
- Categories of Expressions
- Keywords and Names
- Whitespace in Queries
- Literals
- Variables
- Function Calls
- Comments
- Evaluation Order
- Comparison Expressions
- "if-then-else" Expressions
- "and/or" Expressions
- Path Expressions
- Predicates
- Dynamic Paths
- Input Documents
- Context
- Including Elements and Attributes from the Input Document
- Direct Constructors
- Computed Constructors
- Selecting with Path Expressions
- FLWOR Expressions
- Quantified Expressions
- Selecting Distinct Values
- Joins
- Sorting in XQuery
- Grouping
- Aggregating Values
- Built-in Functions
- User-Defined Functions
- Copying Input Elements with Modifications
- Working with Positions and Sequence Numbers
- Combining Results
- Using Intermediate XML Documents
- XQuery and an Namespace
- Namespace Declaration
- The XQuery Type System
- The Built-in Types
- Types, Nodes, and Atomic Values
- Type Checking in XQuery
- Automatic Type Conversions
- Sequence Types
- Constructors and Casting
- Structure of a Query: Prolog and Body
- Assembling Queries from Multiple Modules
- Variable Declarations
- Declaring External Functions
- What Is a Schema?
- Why Use Schemas with Queries?
- W3C XML Schema: A Brief Overview
- In-Scope Schema Definitions
- Schema Validation and Type Assignment
- Sequence Types and Schemas
- What Is Static Typing?
- The Typeswitch Expression
- The Treat Expression
- Type Declarations
- The zero-or-one, one-or-more, and exactly-one Functions
- Query Design:
- Clarity
- Modularity
- Robustness
- Error Handling
- Performance
- Constructing and comparing Numeric Values
- Arithmetic Operations
- Functions on Numbers
- xs:string Type
- Constructing, comparing and manipulating Strings
- Substrings, length
- Concatenating and Splitting Strings
- Whitespace
- Internationalization
- The Structure of a Regular Expression
- Representing Individual Characters
- Representing Any Character
- Representing Groups of Characters
- Character Class Expressions
- Reluctant Quantifiers
- Anchors
- Back-References
- Using Flags
- Using Sub-Expressions with Replacement Variables
- Extracting Components of Dates, Times, and Durations
- Using Arithmetic Operators on Dates, Times, and Durations
- The Date Component Types
- Working with Qualified Names
- URIs, IDs
- Documents
- Text Nodes
- Comments
- PI (Processing Instructions)
- XML Entity
- CDATA
- XML Serialization
- XQueryX
- XQuery Update Facility
- Full-Text Search
- XQJ - XQuery API for Java
- XML Version
- Setting the Query Context
- Option Declarations and Extension Expressions
- Serialization Parameters
- XML Data vs. Relational Data
- SQL Syntax vs. XQuery Syntax
- SQL and XQuery
- XQuery and XPath
- XQuery vs. XSLT
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XQuery Training Course