Adam Steffanick

Digital Humanities

Retrieve Oxford Dictionaries API Translation Data as XML with XQuery and BaseX

My notes from the Vanderbilt University XQuery Working Group We retrieved translation data from the Oxford Dictionaries application programming interface (API) and returned Extensible Markup Language (XML) with XQuery, an XML query language, and BaseX, an XML database engine and XQuery processor. This tutorial illustrates how to retrieve translation data—words and example sentences—as XML from […]

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Posted by on February 17, 2017 in BaseX, Code, Digital Humanities, JSON, Linguistics, OD_API, XML, XQuery

Retrieve Oxford Dictionaries API Dictionary Data as XML with XQuery and BaseX

My notes from the Vanderbilt University XQuery Working Group We retrieved dictionary data from the Oxford Dictionaries application programming interface (API) and returned Extensible Markup Language (XML) with XQuery, an XML query language, and BaseX, an XML database engine and XQuery processor. This tutorial illustrates how to retrieve dictionary data—definitions, example sentences, and pronunciations—as XML […]

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Posted by on February 16, 2017 in BaseX, Code, Digital Humanities, JSON, Linguistics, OD_API, XML, XQuery

Retrieve Oxford Dictionaries API Lemma Data as XML with XQuery and BaseX

My notes from the Vanderbilt University XQuery Working Group We retrieved lemma data from the Oxford Dictionaries application programming interface (API) and returned Extensible Markup Language (XML) with XQuery, an XML query language, and BaseX, an XML database engine and XQuery processor. This tutorial illustrates how to retrieve lemma data—information related to items that can […]

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Posted by on February 10, 2017 in BaseX, Code, Digital Humanities, JSON, Linguistics, OD_API, XML, XQuery

Retrieve Oxford Dictionaries API Thesaurus Data as XML with XQuery and BaseX

My notes from the Vanderbilt University XQuery Working Group We retrieved thesaurus data from the Oxford Dictionaries application programming interface (API) and returned Extensible Markup Language (XML) with XQuery, an XML query language, and BaseX, an XML database engine and XQuery processor. This tutorial illustrates how to retrieve thesaurus data—synonyms and antonyms—as XML from the […]

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Posted by on February 9, 2017 in BaseX, Code, Digital Humanities, JSON, Linguistics, OD_API, XML, XQuery

Manipulate XML Text Data Using XQuery String Functions

My notes from the Vanderbilt University XQuery Working Group We evaluated and manipulated text data (i.e., strings) within Extensible Markup Language (XML) using string functions in XQuery, an XML query language, and BaseX, an XML database engine and XQuery processor. This tutorial covers the basics of how to use XQuery string functions and manipulate text […]

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Posted by on November 18, 2016 in BaseX, Code, Digital Humanities, XML, XQuery

Convert TEI XML to HTML with XQuery and BaseX

My notes from the Vanderbilt University XQuery Working Group We converted a document from the Text Encoding Initiative’s (TEI) Extensible Markup Language (XML) scheme to HTML with XQuery, an XML query language, and BaseX, an XML database engine and XQuery processor. This guide covers the basics of how to convert a document from TEI XML […]

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Posted by on May 3, 2016 in BaseX, Code, Digital Humanities, HTML, TEI, XML, XQuery

Convert CSV to XML with XQuery and BaseX

My notes from the Vanderbilt University XQuery Working Group We sorted data after converting it from Comma Separated Values (CSV) to Extensible Markup Language (XML) with XQuery, an XML query language, and BaseX, an XML database engine and XQuery processor. This guide covers the basics of how to convert data from CSV to XML and […]

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Posted by on October 9, 2015 in BaseX, Code, CSV, Digital Humanities, XML, XQuery