Beginning Mark Logic with XQuery and MarkLogic Server

This book, Beginning MarkLogic with XQuery and MarkLogic Server, is one that will enable you to start using this exciting technology quickly. You will learn essential techniques and functions for using XQuery and MarkLogic Server. Each chapter is carefully structured so that it takes very little time to learn and master. The chapters in the XQuery section contains hands-on code examples that you can practice as you are reading it. This book helps you to understand the technology and how to work with it, and gain confidence so you can succeed in your real work environment. MarkLogic chapters cover fundamental knowledge in MarkLogic Server architecture, search, thesaurus, lexicons, spelling, geospatial functions, creating alerts, error handling, and how to work with MarkLogic documents and databases. XQuery chapters covers essential XQuery skills such as working with XML documents from various locations, predicates, data types, string manipulation, working with numbers, date and time, grouping, sorting, navigating within the XML document, and good programming practices. This book is an introduction to MarkLogic Server and XQuery. The content of this book is designed for the reader who has no knowledge of MarkLogic Server and XQuery. We hope this book will help our readers to acquire some essential skills and knowledge so they can become comfortable working with these technologies. We simply assume readers have some basic knowledge about XML to understand the examples in these chapters. This book is not intended to help readers who have already worked with MarkLogic Server and XQuery for a while. Most information in this book is focused on the very basics. The materials in this book also place more emphasis on development than administration.