08 April 2009
Make better web-based dashboards with XQuery
Many digital dashboards that cropped up in the 1980s were horrible (if not unsubtle) analogs to a car's dashboard. Discover what makes a good dashboard, and learn to identify and leverage key performance indicators (KPIs) for more effective digital dashboards. Finally, build a Web dashboard using the eXist XML database and
XQuery.
11 March 2009
The clear advantages of XQuery over PHP and JSP
Like Structured Query Language (SQL), XQuery is a lookup specification tied to the XML standard. Using XML as the model and XQuery as the view is a powerful way to provide a language-agnostic solution while still retaining the benefits of using the MVC pattern. In this article, explore the advantages of XQuery over other view technologies (PHP, JSP), how XQuery is implemented in the presentation layer, and a realistic example of such an implementation.
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