David Cassel

Another day, another code review. Today I came across a function that generates non-meaningful XML. This is something that at first glance feels like it has a nice structure to it, but there’s a better way. First, let take a look at the XML (I’ve changed the XML and the code to make it anonymous, […]

Today I was looking into some code that was running slower than it should, and I happened across this little tidbit: let $normal :=   try {     xs:int($value)   }   catch($e) {     $value   } Yes, MarkLogic extends XQuery to add try/catch, and this is a tremendously useful feature, when […]