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	<nadpis>Reading an Atom feed using XQuery</nadpis>

	<perex>converting arbitrary XML into relational data using XQuery</perex>

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		<p>

			Atom Syndication Format is a standard for publishing web feeds a.k.a web syndication. 

			These feeds are usually consumed by a <em>feed reeder</em> that aggregates news from many websites and displays them in a uniform format.

			The Atom feed is an XML with a list of recent news containing their titles, URLs and short annotations.

			It also contains some metadata (website author, title etc.).

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		<p>

			Using this simple XQuery<m:podČarou>see <a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery">XQuery</a> at Wikibooks</m:podČarou>

			<em>FLWOR Expression</em>

			we convert the Atom feed into the XML serialization of relational data:

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		<m:pre jazyk="xq" src="examples/atom.xq" odkaz="ano"/>

		<p>

			This is similar operation to <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-xml.html">xmltable</a> used in SQL databases.

			It converts an XML tree structure to the relational form.

			In our case, the output is still XML, but in a format that can be read by <code>relpipe-in-xml</code>.

			All put together in a single shell script:

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		<m:pre jazyk="bash" src="examples/atom.sh"/>

		<p>Will generate a table with web news:</p>

		<m:pre jazyk="text" src="examples/atom.txt"/>

		<p>Or with <code>relpipe-out-recfile</code>, we will get output in the recfile format (<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/">GNU Recutils</a>), like this:</p>

		<m:pre jazyk="text" src="examples/atom.rec"/>

		<p>

			For frequent usage we can create a script or funcrion called <code>relpipe-in-atom</code>

			that reads Atom XML on STDIN and generates relational data on STDOUT.

			And then do any of these:

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		<m:pre jazyk="bash"><![CDATA[wget … | relpipe-in-atom | relpipe-out-tabular

wget … | relpipe-in-atom | relpipe-out-csv

wget … | relpipe-in-atom | relpipe-out-gui

wget … | relpipe-in-atom | relpipe-out-nullbyte | while read_nullbyte published title url; do echo "$title"; done

wget … | relpipe-in-atom | relpipe-out-recfile

]]></m:pre>

		<p>

			There are several implementations of XQuery.

			<a href="http://galax.sourceforge.net/">Galax</a> is one of them. 

			<a href="http://xqilla.sourceforge.net/">XQilla</a> or

			<a href="http://basex.org/basex/xquery/">BaseX</a> are another ones (and support newer versions of the standard).

			There are also XSLT processors like <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc2.html">xsltproc</a>.

			BaseX can be used instead of Galax – we just replace

			<code>galax-run -context-item /dev/stdin</code> with <code>basex -i /dev/stdin</code>.

			Or for XQilla we use: <code>xqilla -i /dev/stdin</code>.

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		<p>

			Reading Atom feeds in a terminal might not be the best way to get news from a website,

			but this simple example learns us how to convert arbitrary XML to relational data.

			And of course, we can generate multiple relations from a single XML using a single XQuery script.

			XQuery can be also used for operations like JOIN or UNION and for filtering and other transformations

			as will be shown in further examples.

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