Course Details

Learn to quickly build single-tier applications using XQuery programming and MarkLogic.

• Duration: Four 8 hour class periods
• Format: Instructor-led or self-paced course with hands-on labs
• Availability: Live online, self-paced, public classes, private onsite
• Audience: Developers
• Prerequisites:
  • MarkLogic Fundamentals

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Course Objectives

Attendees completing this course will be able to:

• Setup and configure a MarkLogic instance and describe the architecture of a MarkLogic cluster.
• Use the MarkLogic REST APIs.
• Build single-tier applications using the XQuery programming language and MarkLogic XQuery APIs.
• Write XPath expressions.
• Use the MarkLogic REST APIs.
• Load and manage documents and metadata using XQuery and MarkLogic Content Pump.
• Configure database indexes.
• Create full text and geospatial search queries using the cts and search APIs.
• Build query options to customize search results.
• Build a single tier web application implementing a custom search grammar, snippets, sort orders, paginated results, and faceted search.
• Implement error handling and logging.
• Implement a role-based security model and configure permissions and privileges.
• Perform database transactions.
• Write SPARQL queries against RDF triple data.

Course Outline

This course has the following units:

• Setting Up MarkLogic Server
• Using the REST APIs
• Building XQuery Applications
• Writing XPath Expressions
• Writing FLWOR Expressions
• Conditional Expressions
• XQuery Functions and Operators
• Creating Local Functions
• MarkLogic Server Architecture
• Loading and Managing Data
• Error Handling and Logging
• Search Fundamentals
• Indexes
• Geospatial Data, Indexing, and Search
• Snippets, Highlighting, Sorting and Pagination
• Developing Library Modules
• Creating Faceted Navigation
• Introduction to Semantics
• Transactions
• Security
• Creating an Alternative Search Interface