XQuery By Example: Advanced Web Publishing
In this session I'll take some O'Reilly book content (encoded in Docbook XML) and show various ways that the content can be repurposed and made to sing and dance online using XQuery. I'll show several code scripts each less than a page long that do something interesting – like combine chapters from various books to produce a dynamic table of contents or index, extract figures and graphics, perform targetted search, and print on demand.
Attendees are encouraged to take the Introduction to XQuery talk before this talk, but that's not a hard prerequisite especially for people who have XPath experience. After the session attendees will hopefully come away with an appreciation for how easy XQuery makes XML manipulation in a real world scenario.
About Jason Hunter
Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic, specializing in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He's probably best known as the author of “Java Servlet Programming” (O'Reilly Media). He's also an Apache Member and as Apache's representative on the Java Community Process Executive Committee he established a landmark agreement allowing open source Java. He's publisher of Servlets.com and XQuery.com, an original contributer to Apache Tomcat (and Apache Ant committer), the creator of the JDOM open source project, a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and XQJ API development, and was recently appointed Sun Java Champion. In 2003, he received the Oracle Magazine Author of the Year award, and in both 2005 and 2006, the JavaOne Outstanding Talk award. His largest audience was 15,000 at a JavaOne conference keynote.
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