Posts tagged XML

FOR XML PATH and CQRS

In a recent twitter exchange with Colin Jack I claimed that SELECT {…} FROM […] FOR XML PATH() is pretty much all you need for providing the Reporting side of CQRS.  Ok, so maybe I overstated it a tad, but it is a valuable technique.  He suggested I blog about it, so I figured even [...]

XML: The good and the bad

Here is a link to the schema for an Advanced Shipping Notification document defined by the American Institute for Steel Construction.
And here is the format for submitting a summary of an employee’s annual earnings(T4) to the Canadian government.
The ASN has tags such as BillOfLadingReference, TransactionDateTime, ShipmentDateTime, ShipmentWeight and is nicely nested to represent the [...]