Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

February 24, 2019

eXist-db 5.0.0 RC6

Filed under: eXist,XML,XML Database,XPath,XQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 4:35 pm

eXist-db 5.0.0 RC6

RC5 was released on November 21, 2018 so there are a number of new features and bug fixes to grab your interest in RC 6.

Features:

  • New De-duplicating BLOB store for binary documents – see https://blog.adamretter.org.uk/blob-deduplication/
  • More elaborate XPath expressions in the Lucene index config of collection.xconf are now supported
  • New non-blocking lock-free implementation of the Transaction Manager
  • CData serialization now respects the output:cdata-section-elements option
  • New XQuery function util:eval-and-serialize for dynamic XQuery evaluation and serialization.
  • New XQuery function util:binary-doc-content-digest to retrieve a digest of a Binary Document
  • … and others.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed Lucene term range queries
  • Copying an XML Resource now correctly removes any nodes that it replaces
  • Fixed a memory leak with XQuery serializers
  • Fixed Garbage Collection churn issue with serialization
  • Fixed Backup/Restore progress reporting
  • XQuery Library Modules on the Java Classpath are now correctly resolved from the importing XQuery module
  • … and others.

Although not ready for production, these new features and bug fixes should have you scurrying to download eXist-db 5.0.0 RC6!

PS: Remember there are only 48 days left for paper submissions to Balisage 2019! Are you going to be using the latest RC for eXist?

January 9, 2019

Summer is Coming! Balisage is Coming! Papers Due April 12, 2019!

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Database,XML Query Rewriting,XML Schema,XPath,XProc,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 7:52 pm

From a recent email about Balisage 2019:

Some “Balisage: The Markup Conference 2019” dates are coming soon:

March 29, 2019 — Peer-review applications due
April 12, 2019 — Paper submissions due
July 30 — August 2, 2019 — Balisage: The Markup Conference
July 29, 2019 — Pre-conference Symposium – Topic to be announced https://www.balisage.net/

Balisage: where serious markup practitioners and theoreticians meet every August.

A colleague recently asked me to share the program for Balisage 2019 to help support a request to attend. What, I was asked, will we talk about at Balisage 2019. I replied “It will be a variety of topics relating to markup, but we won’t know the specifics until May.” “Why? It seems like you should know that now.” was the response. “Why don’t you just decide who you want to talk about what and assign topics?” “Because that would not be a contributed paper conference, it would be some other sort of event!”

Balisage *is* a contributed paper conference, and the submissions from people who want to speak drive the program, the hallway conversations, and the whole tone of Balisage!

If you want to speak at Balisage 2019, if you want to help shape the conversation, if you have an idea, experience, opinion, or question relating to markup, please submit a paper to Balisage 2019!

We solicit papers on any aspect of markup and its uses; topics include but ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

• Cutting-edge applications of XML and related technologies
• Integration of XML with other technologies (e.g., content management, XSLT, XQuery)
• Performance issues in parsing, XML database retrieval, or XSLT processing
• Development of angle-bracket-free user interfaces for non-technical users
• Deployment of XML systems for enterprise data
• Design and implementation of XML vocabularies
• Case studies of the use of XML for publishing, interchange, or archiving
• Alternatives to XML/JSON/whatever
• Expressive power and application adequacy of XSD, Relax NG, DTDs, Schematron, and other schema languages
• Invisible XML

Detailed Call for Participation: https://www.balisage.net/Call4Participation.html
Call for Peer Reviewers: https://www.balisage.net/peer/ReviewAppForm.html
About Balisage: https://www.balisage.net/

For more information: info@balisage.net or +1 301 315 9631

Papers are due for Balisage in a little more than 90 days.

Anyone doing a topic map paper this year?

“If you can point to it, we can identify it. If we can identify it, we can map it. If we can map it, …,” well, you know how the rest of it goes.

Data silos continue to exist because they are armor. Armor that protects some stakeholders from prying eyes. Up for a little peeping?

September 21, 2018

Senate GMail Attack – eXist-db 5.0.0 RC 4 Release – Coincidence?

Filed under: Cybersecurity,eXist,Government,XML,XML Database,XQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 6:16 pm

First I see Senators’ Gmail accounts targeted by foreign hackers from today that reads in part:

The personal Gmail accounts of an unspecified number of US senators and Senate staff have been targeted by foreign government hackers, a Google spokesperson confirmed to CNN on Thursday.
…

then I see in my Twitter feed:

[eXist-db] v5.0.0-RC4 – September 21, 2018.

The campaign season has been devoid of any Clinton-like email leaks, which is both disappointing and a little surprising.

It worked so well last time, taking no news office gossip and by timed release, make back-biting chatter into widely reported news.

You should grab a copy of eXist-db v.5.0.0-RC4 or the current stable version. Practicing now will keep you in shape for any flood of congressional emails.

eXistDB is NOT in league with any hackers anywhere.

I like feeding the paranoid delusions of the IC with groundless gossip. They will write it down, talk about it, do research, all the while they are not out harming US citizens and/or hopefully citizens of any other countries.

August 2, 2018

eXist-db 5.0.0 RC 3 [Prepping for Assange Data Tsunami]

Filed under: .Net,eXist,XML,XML Database,XQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 10:40 am

eXist-db 5.0.0 RC 3

One new feature and several bugs fixes over RC 2, but thought I should mention it for Assange Data Tsunami preppers.

I have deliberately avoided contact with any such preppers but you can read my advice at: username: 4julian password: $etJulianFree!2Day.

The gist is that sysadmins should, with appropriate cautions, create accounts with “username: 4julian password: $etJulianFree!2Day,” in the event that Julian Assange is taken into custory (a likely event).

If one truth teller (no Wikileaks release has ever been proven false or modified) disturbs the world, creating a tsunami of secret, classified, restricted, proprietary data, may shock it to its senses.

Start prepping for the Assange Data Tsunami today!

PS: Yes, there are a variety of social media events, broadcasts, etc. being planned. Wish them all well but governments respond to bleeding more than pleading. In this case, bleeding data seems appropriate.

February 9, 2018

XML Prague 2018 Conference Proceedings – Weekend Reading!

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Database,XPath,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 9:13 pm

XML Prague 2018 Conference Proceedings

Two Hundred and Sixty (260) pages of high quality content on XML!

From the table of contents:

  • Assisted Structured Authoring using Conditional Random Fields – Bert Willems
  • XML Success Story: Creating and Integrating Collaboration Solutions to Improve the Documentation Process – Steven Higgs
  • xqerl: XQuery 3.1 Implementation in Erlang – Zachary N. Dean
  • XML Tree Models for Efficient Copy Operations – Michael Kay
  • Using Maven with XML development projects – Christophe Marchand and Matthieu Ricaud-Dussarget
  • Varieties of XML Merge: Concurrent versus Sequential – Tejas Pradip Barhate and Nigel Whitaker
  • Including XML Markup in the Automated Collation of Literary Text – Elli Bleeker, Bram Buitendijk, Ronald Haentjens Dekker, and Astrid Kulsdom
  • Multi-Layer Content Modelling to the Rescue – Erik Siegel
  • Combining graph and tree – Hans-Juergen Rennau
  • SML – A simpler and shorter representation of XML – Jean-François Larvoire
  • Can we create a real world rich Internet application using Saxon-JS? – Pieter Masereeuw
  • Implementing XForms using interactive XSLT 3.0 – O’Neil Delpratt and Debbie Lockett
  • Life, the Universe, and CSS Tests – Tony Graham
  • Form, and Content – Steven Pemberton
  • tokenized-to-tree – Gerrit Imsieke

I just got a refurbished laptop for reading in bed. Now I have to load XML parsers, etc. on it to use along with reading these proceedings!

Enjoy!

PS: Be sure to thank Jirka Kosek for his tireless efforts promoting XML and XML Prague!

January 10, 2018

eXist-db – First Upgrade for 2018

Filed under: eXist,XML,XML Database,XQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 2:06 pm

I usually update from notices of a new version and so rarely visit the eXist-db homepage. My loss.

There’s a cool homepage image. With links to documentation, community, references, but not overwhelmingly so.

Kudos! Oh, the upgrade:

eXist-db v3.6.1 – January 03, 2018

From the release notes:

eXist-db v3.6.1 has just been released. This is a hotfix release, which contains bug fixes for several important issues discovered since eXist-db v3.6.0.

We recommend that all users of eXist 3.6.0 should upgrade to eXist 3.6.1.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed issue where the package manager wrote non-well-formed XML that caused problems during backup/restore. #1620
  • Fixed namespace prefix for attributes and namespace nodes.
  • Made sure the localName of a in memory element is correctly obtained under various namespace declaration conditions
  • Fix for NPE in org.exist.xquery.functions.fn.FunId #1642
  • Several atomic comparisons raise wrong error code #1638
  • General comparison to empty sequence sometimes raises an error #1639
  • Warn if no <target> is found in an EXPath packages’s repo.xml

Backwards Compatibility

  • eXist-db v3.6.1 is backwards binary-compatible as far as v3.0, but not with earlier versions. Users upgrading from previous versions should perform a full backup and restore to migrate their data.

Downloading This Version

eXist-db v3.6.1 is available for download from Bintray. Maven artifacts for eXist-db v3.6.1 are available from our mvn-repo. Mac users of the Homebrew package repository may acquire eXist 3.6.1 directly from there.

Downloading This Version

eXist-db v3.6.1 is available for download from Bintray. Maven artifacts for eXist-db v3.6.1 are available from our mvn-repo. Mac users of the Homebrew package repository may acquire eXist 3.6.1 directly from there.

When 2018 congressional candidate (U.S.) inboxes start dropping, will eXist-db be your tool of choice?

Enjoy!

May 28, 2013

Four and Twenty < / > ! Baked in a Pie…

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Database,XML Query Rewriting,XML Schema,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 2:53 pm

Balisage 2013 program is online!

From Tommie Usdin’s email:

Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. Participants typically include XML users, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, members of the working groups which define the specifications, academics, industrial researchers, representatives of governmental bodies and NGOs, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world’s greatest concentration of markup theorists. Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical.

Major features of this year’s program include several challenges to the fundamental infrastructure of XML; case studies from government, academia, and publishing; approaches to overlapping data structures; discussions of XML’s political fortunes; and technical papers on XML, XForms, XQuery, REST, XSLT, RDF, XSL-FO, XSD, the DOM, JSON, and XPath.

Attending Balisage even once will keep you from repeating mistakes in language design.

Attending Balisage twice will mark you as a markup expert.

Attending Balisage three or more times, well, this is an open channel so we can’t go there.

But you should go to Balisage!

Send your pics from Saint Catherine Street!

January 10, 2013

Markup Olympics (Balisage) [No Drug Testing]

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Database,XML Schema,XPath,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 1:46 pm

Markup athletes take heart! Unlike venues that intrude into the personal lives of competitors, there are no, repeat no drug tests for presenters at Balisage!

Fear no trainer betrayals or years of being dogged by second-raters in the press.

Eat, drink, visit, ???, present, in the company of your peers.

The more traditional call for participation, yawn, has the following details:

Dates:

15 March 2013 – Peer review applications due
19 April 2013 – Paper submissions due
19 April 2013 – Applications due for student support awards due
21 May 2013 – Speakers notified
12 July 2013 – Final papers due

5 August 2013 – Pre-conference Symposium on XForms
6-9 August 2013 – Balisage: The Markup Conference

From the call:

Balisage is where people interested in descriptive markup meet each year in August for informed technical discussion, occasionally impassioned debate, good coffee, and the incomparable ambience of one of North America’s greatest cities, Montreal. We welcome anyone interested in discussing the use of descriptive markup to build strong, lasting information systems.

Practitioner or theorist, tool-builder or tool-user, student or lecturer — you are invited to submit a paper proposal for Balisage 2013. As always, papers at Balisage can address any aspect of the use of markup and markup languages to represent information and build information systems. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  • XML and related technologies
  • Non-XML markup languages
  • Big Data and XML
  • Implementation experience with XML parsing, XSLT processors, XQuery processors, XML databases, XProc integrations, or any markup-related technology
  • Semantics, overlap, and other complex fundamental issues for markup languages
  • Case studies of markup design and deployment
  • Quality of information in markup systems
  • JSON and XML
  • Efficiency of Markup Software
  • Markup systems in and for the mobile web
  • The future of XML and of descriptive markup in general
  • Interesting applications of markup

In addition, please consider becoming a Peer Reviewer. Reviewers play a critical role towards the success of Balisage. They review blind submissions — on topics that interest them — for technical merit, interest, and applicability. Your comments and recommendations can assist the Conference Committee in creating the program for Balisage 2013!

How:

More IQ per square foot than any other conference you will attend in 2013!

November 20, 2012

Balisage 2013 – Dates/Location

Filed under: Conferences,XML,XML Database,XML Query Rewriting,XML Schema,XPath,XQuery,XSLT,XTM — Patrick Durusau @ 3:19 pm

Tommie Usdin just posted email with the Balisage 2013 dates and location:

Montreal, Hotel Europa, August 5 – 9 , 2013

Hope that works with everything else.

That’s the entire email so I don’t know what was meant by:

Hope that works with everything else.

Short of it being your own funeral, open-heart surgery or giving birth (to your first child), I am not sure what “everything else” there could be?

You get a temporary excuse for the second two cases and a permanent excuse for the first one.

Now’s a good time to hint about plane fare plus hotel and expenses for Balisage as a stocking stuffer.

And to wish a happy holiday Tommie Usdin and to all the folks at Mulberry Technology who make Balisage possible all of us. Each and every one.

June 21, 2012

BaseX 7.3 (The Summer Edition) is now available!

Filed under: BaseX,XML,XML Database,XML Schema,XPath,XQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 7:47 am

BaseX 7.3 (The Summer Edition) is now available!

From the post:

we are glad to announce a great new release of BaseX, our XML database and XPath/XQuery 3.0 processor! Here are the latest features:

  • Many new internal XQuery Modules have been added, and existing ones have been revised to ensure long-term stability of your future XQuery applications
  • A new powerful Command API is provided to specify BaseX commands and scripts as XML
  • The full-text fuzzy index was extended to also support wildcard queries
  • The simple map operator of XQuery 3.0 gives you a compact syntax to process items of sequences
  • BaseX as Web Application can now start its own server instance
  • All command-line options will now be executed in the given order
  • Charles Foster’s latest XQJ Driver supports XQuery 3.0 and the Update and Full Text extensions

For those of you in the Northern Hemisphere, we wish you a nice summer! No worries, we’ll stay busy..

Just in time for the start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere!

Something you can toss onto your laptop before you head to the beach.

Err, huh? Well, even if you don’t take BaseX 7.3 to the beach, it promises to be good fun for the summer and more serious work should the occasion arise.

I count twenty-three (23) modules in addition to the XQuery functions specified by the latest XPath/XQuery 3.0 draft.

Just so you know, the BaseX database server listens to port 1984 by default.

June 1, 2012

Are You Going to Balisage?

Filed under: Conferences,RDF,RDFa,Semantic Web,XML,XML Database,XML Schema,XPath,XQuery,XSLT — Patrick Durusau @ 2:48 pm

To the tune of “Are You Going to Scarborough Fair:”

Are you going to Balisage?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who is there,
she once was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me an XML shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Without any seam or binary code,
Then she shall be a true lover of mine.

….

Oh, sorry! There you will see:

  • higher-order functions in XSLT
  • Schematron to enforce consistency constraints
  • relation of the XML stack (the XDM data model) to JSON
  • integrating JSON support into XDM-based technologies like XPath, XQuery, and XSLT
  • XML and non-XML syntaxes for programming languages and documents
  • type introspection in XQuery
  • using XML to control processing in a document management system
  • standardizing use of XQuery to support RESTful web interfaces
  • RDF to record relations among TEI documents
  • high-performance knowledge management system using an XML database
  • a corpus of overlap samples
  • an XSLT pipeline to translate non-XML markup for overlap into XML
  • comparative entropy of various representations of XML
  • interoperability of XML in web browsers
  • XSLT extension functions to validate OCL constraints in UML models
  • ontological analysis of documents
  • statistical methods for exploring large collections of XML data

Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. Participants typically include XML users, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, Topic-Map enthusiasts, semantic-Web evangelists, members of the working groups which define the specifications, academics, industrial researchers, representatives of governmental bodies and NGOs, industrial developers, practitioners, consultants, and the world’s greatest concentration of markup theorists. Discussion is open, candid, and unashamedly technical.

The Balisage 2012 Program is now available at: http://www.balisage.net/2012/Program.html

October 15, 2011

BaseX

Filed under: BaseX,XML Database,XPath,XQuery — Patrick Durusau @ 4:29 pm

BaseX

From the webpage:

BaseX is a very light-weight and high-performance XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor, including full support for the W3C Update and Full Text extensions. An interactive and user-friendly GUI frontend gives you great insight into your XML documents and collections.

To maximize your productivity and workflows, we offer professional support, tailor-made software solutions and individual trainings on XML, XQuery and BaseX. The product itself is completely Open Source (BSD-licensed) and platform independent. Join our mailing lists to get regular updates!

But most important: BaseX runs out of the box and is easy to use…

For those of us who don’t think documents, even XML documents, are all that weird. 😉

August 10, 2011

MarkLogic: Beyond NoSQL

Filed under: MarkLogic,XML Database — Patrick Durusau @ 7:16 pm

MarkLogic: Beyond NoSQL

From the post:

Even though the term, NoSQL, has issues, it’s become important.

Recently, leaders from several NoSQL projects (Riak, HBase, CouchDB, Neo4j) came together for a session at Gluecon. And while they came from divergent perspectives, they all basically agreed that the term had been very helpful to developers and architects in identifying their systems as new database and/or database-alternative technologies.

There have been numerous NoSQL taxonomies, discussions about them, and calls to move beyond them. And while it’s clear to us, as well as our friends and customers, that MarkLogic Server sits among these technologies, we haven’t yet fully described why NoSQL folks should pay attention. To that end, this post is a first step at explaining why and how we’re more than “yet another NoSQL system”. And I’ll start with some context for NoSQL folks.

You should read the post for yourself but suffice for me to say that MarkLogic is an XML database that sports a universal index of the elements, attributes, hierarchy of documents as well as their content.

If that doesn’t sound interesting, see: MarkMail, which is powered by a MarkLogic server.

Interested now?

August 9, 2011

eXist RC 1.4.1

Filed under: eXist,XML Database — Patrick Durusau @ 7:55 pm

eXist RC 1.4.1

I saw a post on a mailing list from Adam Retter with the following news:

I would just like to let you all know that the Release Candidate for eXist-db 1.4.1 is out, this is the culmination of two years of hard work. We take our releases very seriously!

eXist-db is all about XML, indexing and querying. We provide various indexes including full-text indexing of structured, semi-structured and un-structured content. Our unit of storage is the Document, XML or Binary. We can also extract and make searchable content from Binary Documents.

Not only is eXist-db an OpenSource XML Native Database, its also a fully fledged web application platform for XRX applications, so don’t let the ‘-db’ bit fool you.

Had not meant to be neglecting the XML databases. You are going to encounter them in a number of contexts, either as storing data you need or as repositories you address from within a topic map.

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