CSC 513 Programming Assignment 2: Transform XML

Update

2007/3/18
• To simplify the XQuery, you can ignore the values of attribute version and attribute xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation in rss element, which means you can have

  <rss xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="0.3"
       xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="csc513news.xsd">
  	

  The value of attribute version does not need to be "2.0", and the value of attribute xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation does not need to be "csc513news2.xsd", as long as the output XML can be validated by csc513news2.xsd

2007/3/8
• To execute XQuery using saxon...
1. download saxonb8-8j.zip,
2. extract saxonb8-8j.zip and find saxon8.jar,
3. put saxon8.jar in your java classpath, or put it in the folder containing your XQuery files,
4. go to the folder containing XQuery files and execute saxon,
   
   • if saxon8.jar is in your java classpath...

   java net.sf.saxon.Query chang.xq
   		

   • if saxon8.jar is in the folder containing your XQuery files...

   java -cp saxon8.jar net.sf.saxon.Query chang.xq
   		

5. we can also save XQuery result to a file,

java -cp saxon8.jar net.sf.saxon.Query chang.xq > chang.xml
		

6. then we can use DOMEcho and csc513news2.xsd to verify the result.

2007/3/3
• Please use your unity ID as your filenames, for example, chang.xq.

Description

In this assignment, you will be transforming from one XML format to another via XQuery. Write an XQuery to transform csc513news.xml (xsd) into csc513news2.xml (xsd).

Deliverables

• Submit the XQuery file (unity-id.xq)

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