This post is based on how MarkLogic’s Application Builder worked in MarkLogic versions 4 and 5; it does not apply to versions 6+. In my last post, I showed how to add maps to the front page of a MarkLogic…
Using MarkLogic’s Application Builder makes it a snap to put together an application quickly. Whenever I build an app this way, I feel like I’ve gotten 80% of what I need. This post shows how to take the next step…
I’ve been working with MarkLogic Server for more than a year now, and one thing I’ve enjoyed is how easy it makes some things that used to be hard (or at least, harder). But there are some thing that the…
MarkLogic Server (MLS) has some pretty cool plug-ins to help you work with Microsoft Office. After you configure and install the plugin, you can now have a side panel in PowerPoint populated by one of your web apps. Here’s an…
In XQuery, I commonly find myself writing XPath statements to navigate into some block of XML to find some tasty nugget that’s in there somewhere. When doing so, I’ve found one particular aspect that frequently throws me off, getting me…
Every now and then I get caught by this little gotcha, so I figured I’d share and hopefully by writing about it, I’ll remember to do this right. Let’s start with a little something simple, shall we? let $seq :=…
[Update: This post was originally labelled “Calling a function on all permutations of a sequence”. John Boyer was kind enough to point out that the function works for power sets rather than permutations, so I’ve updated this post accordingly. Thanks,…
Welcome to part 5 of my series on designing a RESTful chess service. Don’t worry — today’s is the last of the planning posts, then we get to some code. The last two steps laid out by the authors of RESTful…
This is part four in a series of posts walking through the process of building a RESTful chess service. I’ve been slacking off a bit in the pace of my posts, but hopefully that will pick back up — I…
In part 2 of this series, I defined the data set and resources for my service. I’ve been following the procedure listed in RESTful Web Services for how to lay out the service. Here are those steps again: Figure out…