Rendition Protocol

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Backup / Export Your Google Site

Judging from this thread, the inability to easily backup/export a Google Site has been a problem for awhile. Thankfully there's a tool on Google Code you can use to grab a local copy. The tool is pretty simple, but the documentation is not entirely clear. Here's what I did for my simple site, which is private:

Host: sites.google.com
Domain: [leave blank]
Webspace: [the last part of domain name path; if the domain name is http://sites.google.com/site/mysite123, this value would be just mysite123]
Import/Export Revisions: [I left this unchecked]
Username: [my Google account, with @gmail.com at the end]
Password: [the obvious]
Choose Target Directory: [the obvious]

Here's Google's blog post that talks about the issue a bit more.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

MVC Storefront Collected Links

There are videos and posts out there about the MVC Storefront sample application for ASP.NET MVC 1.0, but they're scattered around a bit.

This list will mix the original posts from Rob Conery's blog, Weke Road, and the ASP.NET MVC video collection and some Rob's related posts.

MVC Storefront Part 19a: Windows Workflow Followup

[video]

The source code is out on Codeplex.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Unique Attribute Values Across Multiple Documents using XQuery

It's a little slow, but here's one way to get a list of all the unique attribute values across multiple XML documents using XQuery.


let $raw-values := 
  for $book in collection("abc")/(gbook|set)[@type='oeb']
  return 
    element { "book" } 
    { 
      for $value in distinct-values($book//node()/@class)
      return element { "class" } { $value }
    }
for $item in distinct-values($raw-values//class)
order by $item
return element { "uniques" } { $item }

Friday, July 10, 2009

MarkLogic XCC Layer File Open Errors

If you have library modules you're importing, the query may work fine in cq, but if you try to use the same query via the XCC layer you may get "File Open Error" messages.

One cause of this for me was the pathing in the import statement. cq seems to handle a relative path while XCC cannot, at least in MarkLogic 4.1.

I needed to change from...

import module namespace my = "http://blah.com" at "search-parser-xml.xqy",
"search-snippet.xqy";

...to...

import module namespace my = "http://blah.com" at "/search-parser-xml.xqy",
"/search-snippet.xqy";

Monday, July 6, 2009

MarkLogic, cq and Namespaces

If you import an XQuery library in cq and declare the namespace, cq gets fussy if you then try to declare your own functions. I know there are clear reasons for this, but here's what I do so I can use my own functions during testing.


xquery version "1.0-ml";

import module namespace search = "http://marklogic.com/appservices/search" 
  at "/MarkLogic/appservices/search/search.xqy";

declare namespace my="http://www.my-web-site.com/xquery";

declare variable $options-title := 
<options xmlns="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search">  
  <searchable-expression>
    collection("abc123")//(div)
  </searchable-expression>
  <transform-results apply="snippet">
    <per-match-tokens>30</per-match-tokens>
    <max-matches>1</max-matches>
    <max-snippet-chars>200</max-snippet-chars>
    <preferred-elements/>
  </transform-results>
</options>;

declare function my:do-search()
{
  search:search("food", $options-title, (), 25)
};

my:do-search()