[xquery-talk] [ANN] WikiXMLDB - Query Wikipedia with XQuery

[Maxim Grinev]

 Christian,

thanks for your interest.

Yes, you can write in standard XQuery. Sedna supports 98.8% of XQuery
specification.
You can find more on this at
http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org/help/getting-started/

Maxim



2008/4/16, Christian Grün <christian.gruen at gmail.com>:
>
> Dear Maxim,
>
> thank you for the great Wiki demo; the response times are quite
> impressive!
>
> One question: is it possible to run queries on the data by only using
> the standard XQuery language (i.e. without the Sedna-specific index
> functions?) I'd like to do something like..
>
>   doc("wiki..")//page[ title = 'Ted Nelson' ]
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> Christian
>
>
>
> 2008/4/16, Maxim Grinev <maxim at grinev.net>:
>
> > We are pleased to announce WikiXMLDB which allows querying Wikipedia in
> > XQuery.
> >
> > http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org
> >
> > We have parsed English Wikipedia into a well-structured XML document (21
> Gb
> > in size) and loaded it into Sedna XML database
> > (http://modis.ispras.ru/sedna). With WikiXMLDB demo you can run
> predefined
> > or your own XQuery queries via Web interface.
> >
> > Querying Wikipedia in XQuery allows you to implement many interesting
> > applications. Read "Use case" section
> > (http://wikixmldb.dyndns.org/help/use-cases) for more
> > details.
> >
> > Enjoy it!
> >
> > Maxim Grinev
> > Sedna team
> >
> >
>
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>
> --
> ___________________________
>
> Christian Gruen
> Universitaet Konstanz
> Department of Computer & Information Science
> D-78457 Konstanz, Germany
> Tel: +49 (0)7531/88-4449, Fax: +49 (0)7531/88-3577
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