[MarkLogic Dev General] MarkLogic XQuery Tag LibraryandJSTLXMLTag Library

[Griffin, Matt]

Hi Alan,

Most of our queries are in xqy modules on the server.  For single-shot
formatting functions there's not much point but it's definitely a good
idea for data extraction functions that would be reused.  

As far as interaction with java, we do everything with xdbc.  The
resulting html fragment gets added to the model by the controller and
the jsp view renders the page and inserts the fragment in the proper
place.  It's simple and works for us but I'd be interested if anyone
thinks there's a better approach.

-Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com
[mailto:general-bounces at developer.marklogic.com] On Behalf Of Alan
Darnell
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:36 AM
To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] MarkLogic XQuery Tag
LibraryandJSTLXMLTag Library

Matt,

Do you store these queries as xqy files on the Mark Logic server and  
bring the content into your servlet via HTTP or do you keep the query  
logic in the servlet and grab the results from Mark Logic via XDBC?    
Once you have the data from the ML server as an HTML fragment, do you  
then pass this to a JSP page for rendering or do you do all the  
rendering in the servlet?  If you pass the HTML fragment to a JSP  
page, what mechanism do you use to do this?

Sorry for the dim questions -- I'm trying to figure out how to apply  
the "classic" MVC model to Mark Logic.

Alan


On 4-Apr-07, at 6:03 PM, Griffin, Matt wrote:

> I've been trying to push this kind of content processing back into ML
> wherever possible.  I still try to be careful about separation of
> concern so I write my queries as the result of two functions.  The  
> first
> selects relevant content and is reusable, the second wraps it for
> formatting.  Java can then just use the result as a stream and put it
> where it needs to go.
>
> The call would look something like this for an html fragment:
> element ul {
>   for $j select-journals-by-term($term)
>   return
>       element li {
>         attribute id { $j//journal-id },
>         $j//title
>       }
>
>
> -Matt

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