A trick with cts:near-query

Author: Dave Cassel  |  Category: Software Development

A reader recently emailed me a question about an old post on the MarkLogic developer’s mailing list. The goal was to run a query such that an element’s value and an attribute on that element both matched. The problem was that the queries the asker built would match one element’s value and a different element’s […]

XML Data Modeling Suggestions

Author: Dave Cassel  |  Category: Software Development

Before I can talk about data modeling, I need to quickly address something else. At MarkLogic, we often talk about how we can take data as-is and do great stuff with it. If we can do great stuff with data as-is, why do we need to do data modeling? There are a couple reasons. First, […]

Refocusing

Author: Dave Cassel  |  Category: Career

My posts have been sparse over the last several months. That’s because I’ve been working on a MarkLogic book. For reasons I’m not going to get into here, I no longer plan to finish that book. The good news is that what I had written so far should give me a good number of blog […]