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Using XQuery with Office Documents (ODF & OOXML)

Two emerging standards, OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML), are gaining popularity (and originating several fights in standard bodies). Although neither ODF nor OOXML creates a clear separation between data and presentation, both standards have adopted XML, which means that you can finally use standard XML tools, like XQuery, to query your office documents! A new article by Marc Van Cappellen describes in detail how to query your office documents using XQuery.

On-Demand Webinar: Converting Between EDI and XML

The Internet has ushered in a new age for EDI — one in which EDI is used in conjunction with the ubiquitous Web to transact business. Watch this on-demand webinar and learn how to modernize your EDI infrastructure and exploit XML technologies. Our topics presented in this webinar include:

• Tackling challenges in EDI and flat file integration with modern applications
• Streaming any non-XML data as XML to industry-leading XML processing components or to your own applications
• Understanding the benefits of EDI transformation to XML

Finally, a customer case study shows you how this technology is solving real-world problems, today. Watch this on-demand webinar now. (Registration not required)

Get eXtra Money for the Holidays

XQuery saves you time and effort developing advanced data integration applications. And now you can make money with XQuery, too! For a limited time, DataDirect will send you a $10 (US) Amazon.com Gift Certificate for each XQuery usage tip and trick you submit that we publish on our website! You can check out our existing XQuery tips and tricks, or you can submit your own here.

Join DataDirect at the XML 2007 Conference in Boston

The XML 2007 Conference is this December 3-5 in Boston, Massachusetts. Join the DataDirect XML Team at several practical XML sessions. If you'd like to spend time with us at the show to chat about how DataDirect's XML tools can help solve your data integration challenges, email us and we'll find a time that's convenient. DataDirect's agenda at XML 2007 looks like this:

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

8:15 AM to 8:45 AM
XML — Success in Victory Lane
Speaker: Carlo Innocenti
Location: Wellesley Room, Marriott Copley Place, Boston.
Breakfast: hosted by DataDirect Technologies
Description: Join DataDirect for breakfast and a little technology fun! XQuery offers great promise to enterprise IT architects and developers. Breakfast attendees will learn the basics of XQuery, some easy-to-implement tricks of the trade, and how to quickly get to Victory Lane with your XML projects. There will be no PowerPoint presentation while you eat. Instead, attendees will compete against one another by answering basic and intermediate XML and XQuery questions. You'll learn things in an interesting way, and you may even walk away with a great prize! We’ll be presenting iPods to four lucky attendees, so make sure to join us and bring your appetite – for a great breakfast and some XQuery knowledge! Enjoy life in the technology fast lane with DataDirect and XQuery!

12:45 PM
Using XQuery and XSLT on Non-XML Data
Speaker: Tony Lavinio
Location: Suffolk Room, Marriott Copley Place, Boston.
Description: Tony will show how to use a specialized URI resolver to allow standard XSLT and XQuery engines to process data that is in formats other than XML, such as EDI, CSV, or xBase. Examples and code will be included.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

During the day, Carlo Innocenti will present the following XQuery sessions from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the Simmons Room, Marriott Copley Place, Boston. Come to one, or come to all.

• Qualifying to Race - An Introduction to XQuery.
  1:00 PM to 1:50 PM
  An introduction to the language with practical examples about how to query, transform and aggregate XML documents using XQuery
  
  
• Setting the Pace - XQuery and Relational Databases.
  2:00 PM to 2:50 PM
  How do I use XQuery to access my relational data and join it with other XML data? How do I update relational databases from XQuery?
  
  
• Taking the Lead – XQuery, SOA and Web Services.
  3:00 PM to 3:50 PM
  How can I consume Web services from XQuery and how do I expose Data Services based on XQuery through Web services?
  
  
• The Winner's Circle – XQuery and XML Industry Standards.
  4:00 PM to 4:50 PM
  How can XQuery help me deal with XML industry standards, for example ACORD for insurance