Hi Steve, Schemas *should* have a target namespace--all of the ones I have seen used in MarkLogic do. But in theory you can use one without a namespace (I think the noTargetNamespace or something like that...), but I have never tried that.
As for the serialization, in 3.2, the output encoding is always serialized as UTF-8. -Danny -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Mallen Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:44 AM To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] Schema aware XQuery andXML SerializationOptions in ML 3.2? Thanks, Danny. I will give that a try, and have a look through the older messages. Do you need to have a target namespace in the schema to use it, or will it work without namespaces? Also, any ideas on the serialization stuff? Cheers, -Steve Danny Sokolsky wrote: > Hi Steve, > > I think you need something like this: > > import schema "uri-of-your-schema-you-are-importing" at "schema-path" > declare namespace foo="uri-of-your-schema-you-are-importing" > > define variable $input as element(foo:result) { doc('myfile.xml')/* } > > You are correct that schemas are used for typing. There are some other > threads that talk about schemas like this one: > > http://markmail.org/message/snhlrjv5kp4bbfrk > > -Danny > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve > Mallen > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 2:20 AM > To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion > Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] Schema aware XQuery and XML > SerializationOptions in ML 3.2? > > Hi everyone, > > The dev guide and admin docs talk about how to load and retrieve an XML > Schema, and in various parts of the marketing material Mark Logic is > described as "schema-aware". The dev guide has a section on Loading > Schemas and says: > > "Schemas are automatically invoked by the server when loading > documents (for conducting content repair) and when evaluating queries > (for proper data typing)." > > and > > "The most common activity developers want to carry out with schema > is to read them." > > I've managed to load a schema into the database, and import it into my > XQuery (using "import schema"), but how can I declare variables as > elements of my schema? > > In XQuery 1.0, I can do this: > > declare variable $input as schema-element(result) := > doc('myfile.xml')/*; > > There is another similar construct for attributes. Does anyone know > what the equivalent syntax in ML 3.2 (XQuery WD 2003) is? I've tried > reading the specs but they're not very clear on the issue. It seems > that my schemas are not being automatically invoked, as I can construct > XPath expressions which do not conform to my Schema and the query > processor does not complain. > > Can anyone explain the "schema-awareness" of ML? What does it use the > schema for? As I understand it, I can't validate documents using the > Schema? > > As an unrelated XQuery side issue, I'd also like to have some control > over XML serialization. What control does ML give me in this regard? > The dev guide seems silent on the issue. For example, I'd like to be > able to output a DOCTYPE and specify an encoding for my results. In > XSLT I can do this: > > <xsl:output doctype-public=""-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > doctype-system=""http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"; > encoding="UTF-8" /> > > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/ lists many other > options. There are "declare options" settings for these in eXist. Can > I do the equivalent in ML - or is this not possible? > > Many thanks, > -Steve > > p.s. The following article by Michael Kay has a very good overview of > schema aware queries, and it is from here that I got the idea: > > http://www.stylusstudio.com/schema_aware.html > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
