Evan Lenz
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Using namespace wildcards in XPath
Namespace wildcards are handy shortcuts — sometimes. But more often than not they should be avoided. Read more to learn why.
Searching with constraints and facets
Learn how MarkLogic’s Search API made it easy to implement faceted search for an example website.
To “fn” or not to “fn”
Should you use the “fn:” prefix when calling the built-in XQuery functions? This post discusses the pros and cons.
Learning with xdmp:query-trace()
The xdmp:query-trace() function is a useful tool in helping to understand how MarkLogic evaluates queries. Why does a query run fast or slow?
Good XML design and performance
There are lots of good reasons to use descriptive, unique element names whenever possible, and doing so plays nicely with human readers, XQuery, XSLT, XML Schemas, and MarkLogic Server.
Punctuation in XPath, part 5: “//”
Previous posts in this series: Punctuation in XPath, part 1: dot (“.”) Punctuation in XPath, part 2: slash (“/”) Punctuation in XPath, part 3: “@” and “..” Punctuation in XPath, part 4: predicates (“[…]”) In this final blog of the series on XPath punctuation, we’ll learn about the “//” operator, a convenient shorthand for selecting […]
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