XQuery for Humanists.

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.

5.4.2 The Else Clause Is Required: A Few Tips About Using Conditional Expressions -- 5.4.3 Chaining Conditional Expressions -- 5.5 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 6: Next Steps with XQuery -- 6.1 The Built-In Function Library -- 6.2 Writing Your Own Functions -- 6.3 Using Library Modules -- 6.3.1 Importing Library Modules -- 6.3.2 Creating Your Own Library Modules -- 6.3.3 Public and Private Functions -- 6.3.4 Wrapping Up -- 6.4 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 7: Advanced XQuery -- 7.1 String Constructors -- 7.2 Maps and Arrays -- 7.2.1 Revisiting Sequences -- 7.2.2 Maps -- 7.2.3 Arrays -- 7.2.4 Combining Maps and Arrays -- 7.2.5 Modifying Maps and Arrays -- 7.3 Windowing -- 7.3.1 Understanding Tuple Streams -- 7.3.2 Tumbling Windows -- 7.3.3 Sliding Windows -- 7.4 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 8: Thinking Functionally -- 8.1 Immutability -- 8.2 Maps -- 8.3 Folds -- 8.4 Recursion -- 8.4.1 Transforming Data with Recursive Typeswitch -- 8.5 Higher-Order Functions -- 8.6 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 9: Modifying Your Data with XQuery Update -- 9.1 Copying Data -- 9.2 Transform Expressions -- 9.2.1 Insert -- 9.2.2 Delete -- 9.2.3 Replace -- 9.2.4 Rename -- 9.2.5 Transform With -- 9.3 Updating Expressions -- 9.3.1 Changing the World -- 9.3.2 Updating Functions -- 9.4 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 10: Searching with XQuery Full Text -- 10.1 Finding Patterns with XPath -- 10.1.1 Searching Substrings -- 10.1.2 Regular Expressions -- 10.2 The Full Text Contains Text Operator -- 10.2.1 Scoring -- 10.2.2 Any-All Options -- 10.2.3 Cardinality -- 10.2.4 Positional Filters -- 10.2.5 Weighting -- 10.2.6 Match Options -- 10.3 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 11: Handling Errors Gracefully -- 11.1 Documenting Your XQuery with XQDoc -- 11.2 Catching Mistakes Before You Run Anything -- 11.3 Catching Errors at Runtime.

11.4 Unit Testing with XQuery -- 11.5 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 12: Using XQuery with Other Digital Humanities Tools -- 12.1 XQuery and JSON -- 12.2 XQuery and CSV -- 12.3 XQuery and XSLT -- 12.4 Questions and Exercises -- Chapter 13: Conclusion -- 13.1 XQuery Paralipomena -- 13.1.1 Web Applications -- 13.1.2 Databases -- 13.2 The XQuery Community -- 13.2.1 Books -- 13.2.2 Digital Forums -- 13.2.3 Conferences and Training -- 13.3 Questions and Exercises -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- About the Authors -- Index.

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