• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• Subject: RE: newbie XUpdate how to use with java!
• From: Uche Ogbuji <Uche.Ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:47:53 -0600
• Cc: 'Carmen QUINTERO' <cmqcxml@y...>, xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <20050420193529.38D2613865@y...>
• Organization: Fourthought, Inc.
• References: <20050420193529.38D2613865@y...>

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 20:40 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
>  > I start working with XML, I have to modify a document
> > by adding new elements. I know that I must use XUpdate
> > syntax but in java what class, method do I call to
> > send the XUpdate query and execute it?
> 
> XUpdate is designed essentially for updating documents within XML databases.

No it's not.  It's designed for updating XML documents.  Full stop.

> For updating standalone documents, the usual approach is to use XSLT to
> transform the old document to a new document, which you can then use to
> overwrite the old document if you wish.

I prefer XUpdate myself, and our XUpdate tools work on the command line,
or from simple Python API.  I'd be surprised if there weren't such tools
for Java as well.


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Uche Ogbuji                               Fourthought, Inc.
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Use CSS to display XML, part 2 - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss2-i.html
XML Output with 4Suite & Amara - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/20/py-xml.html
Use XSLT to prepare XML for import into OpenOffice Calc - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-oocalc/
Schema standardization for top-down semantic transparency - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think31.html

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