Re: best practical resources on using xml xquery etc

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From	Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
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On 01/05/2015 12:04 AM, Sayth Renshaw wrote:
> Hi
> 
> What would be a good recommendation for a practical book on using
> xml?
> 
> Accessing values, storing files, creating set queries on xml to
> create a feed to push data to ipython, rstudio and ultimately the Web
> via tables and graphs Eg ggplot2, plotly.

It sounds like your requirements are for "data" XML rather than the
traditional "document" XML.

A good start is Elliotte Rusty Harold's "XML in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly,
2004), ISBN 0-596-00764-7; perhaps followed by Seán McGrath's "XML by
Example: Building E-Commerce Applications".

For accessing values and doing queries, learn XPath, XSLT2, and XQuery:
see "Beginning XSLT 2.0" by Jeni Tennison (Apress, 2005) and "XQuery" by
Priscilla Walmsley (O'Reilly, 2006)

///Peter
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best practical resources on using xml xquery etc Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2015-01-04 16:04 -0800
  Re: best practical resources on using xml xquery etc Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2015-01-21 22:25 +0000

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