OOMPH MEDIA » XQuery http://www.oomphmedia.co.uk/files/blog Multimedia Design & Development Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:09:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Zoo Finder http://www.oomphmedia.co.uk/files/blog/web/zoo-finder/ http://www.oomphmedia.co.uk/files/blog/web/zoo-finder/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 18:37:48 +0000 admin http://www.oomphmedia.co.uk/files/blog/?p=145 This is a website I developed with a friend whilst at university, it incorporates an XML file to store information about zoo’s including address, telephone number and the zoo’s website URL. You are able to search for a zoo either by name or by the letter. For example if you search for the letter “b” all the zoo’s that begin with the letter b will be displayed:

The website incorporates the use of XSLT and XQuery to extract the data from the XML file and style it appropriately before it is displayed on the page. The site also makes use of Yahoo Pipes, data is pulled from the XML file and is used to geocode the longitude and latitude coordinates of the zoo. It’s position is then placed onto a Google Map along with the zoo address details and an image pulled dynamically from flickr. The image link below shows the workings of the Yahoo Pipe:

The development documentation for this project can be downloaded here

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