The black hole…
I don’t write here for some time. It’s been a busy year. But a recent event makes me feel like it is an excellent time to write a little, about the architecture I created behind the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa [Portuguese Language Dictionary] from Academia das Ciências de Lisboa [Lisbon’s Science Academy]. The story of […]
Today I took a long time, together with folks from the eXist-DB Community (thanks Luca Guariento and line0 for the brainstorming), to figure out why a function was receiving a node sequence instead of a single node. The question was why using this code was not working: And fn:lower-case was complaining for receiving a sequence […]
Today I stumped on how to create a XML document, storing it in a XQuery variable, that is composed from both a processing instruction and an XML body. While this might seem easy at first, creating the document as once: The truth is that this does not work. Nevertheless, there is a set of ways […]
I’ve been using eXist-DB for some time for the project of the Dicionário da Academia de Ciências de Lisboa, that is being revived from the PDF into TEI, so that a new digital version can be soon released. Recently I needed to update the server where eXist-DB was running, and decided to use a dockerized […]
Using the blog as a notepad, I will start posting here some notes on things I discover and are not very clear in the documentation (or I just did not find it at first). In the last times I have been hacking in eXist-db, and writing XQuery. I noticed a website with a lot of […]