Archive for March, 2009

Semi-Structured Data and the Web – Day 5.5

Two weeks later, on deadline day… I think I defeated the XQuery assignment. It took the best part of a week, guessing at around 18 hours,  but my 485 lines of code handle everything I can think of that was within the spec of the assignment. It was loads of fun handling transformations from various [...]

Posted on March 16, 2009 at 1:47 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Semi-Structured Data and the Web – Day 5

It’s been an enlightening week on the homework front. Having had some experience with XML before, I know how easy it is to mess up writing XML, particularly if you’re doing it by hand. Nesting wrong here, a tag misspelled there… although XML is, technically speaking, ‘human readable’, it’s not exactly human-friendly. It’s extremely precise, [...]

Posted on March 2, 2009 at 11:00 pm by Paul Brabban · Permalink · Leave a comment
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