mlFacets directive
My group within MarkLogic is moving to using AngularJS for the front-end code of our MarkLogic applications. One of the things I like about AngularJS is how many directives are already out there, and thus available for us to use…
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Fixing a slow XQuery function
Sometimes an application is slower to respond than we like. There are a variety of reasons this can happen — hardware, indexes, algorithms. MarkLogic offers some tools to investigate the software aspects of code running too slow. The rest of…
Demo Catalog
I’ve begun working on a Demo Catalog application recently that has a few purposes. My immediate purpose is to make our demos easier for our sales engineers to describe, find, comment on, and file bugs and RFEs against. If others…
XQuery: finding values in one sequence that aren’t in another
During a recent working session, a question came up about how to quickly find all the values in one sequence that aren’t in another. A little poking around the web turns up what seems to be the standard approach: I…
Recursive Descent in XQuery
This post covers a technique that’s an oldie but a goodie, with some thoughts on how it applies with today’s MarkLogic features. I reviewed this with my team recently and we thought it would make a good reference. The post…
Partial document updates with MarkLogic’s REST API
I just got my first taste of one of the new features in MarkLogic 7: the ability to do partial document updates through the built-in REST API. It made me happy. You may be aware that the REST API was…
Roxy Survey
Over the last week, I conducted a survey of how people use the Roxy framework. I got 34 responses. Let’s see what people said. Note that multiple answers were allowed to the first four questions (Roxy Components, MarkLogic Versions, Roxy…
Removing a Facet when using the MarkLogic Visualization Widgets
Suppose you’ve built an application using MarkLogic’s Visualization Widgets. At some point you decide you have too many and decide to remove one. I’ve seen a couple cases where someone does an incomplete removal, so I figured it’s worth laying…
Setting default pages with the REST API
I just went through the exercise of figuring out what’s needed to change the default page when building an application with MarkLogic’s REST API. Time to share. Built-in Default Suppose you have an HTTP application server configured to use the…
Announcing Roxy 1.4
I just sent this out to the Roxy mailing list. Hello all, I’m happy to announce Roxy 1.4 has just moved up to the master branch. That means lots of new features when you create a new project, without having…