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Basic dynamic web pages, with XQuery and eXist

This self-guided tutorial builds up from a simple "Hello, World!" exercise to a dynamic web page that responds to user input. It uses eXist-db and teaches the basic interface elements of the eXide XQuery IDE for developing XQuery-based applications in eXist.

eXist is a free, open source native XML database. It's a great tool for learning how to query, analyze, and transform your data. Among the various interfaces for working with eXist, one of the most convenient is eXide, a browser-based IDE (integrated development environment) for writing XQuery modules and developing XQuery-based applications on your own computer without installing any additional software. eXide comes pre-installed with eXist and has a number of useful features. We'll just cover the basics here. And once you have something you'd like to turn into a web page, eXist has a built-in web server, so you can develop full-fledged web applications by learning just a few additional functions and tec

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# Here are a few methods for getting text from PDF files. Do read through 
# the instructions carefully! NOte that this code is written for Windows 7,
# slight adjustments may be needed for other OSs

# Tell R what folder contains your 1000s of PDFs
dest <- "G:/somehere/with/many/PDFs"

# make a vector of PDF file names
myfiles <- list.files(path = dest, pattern = "pdf",  full.names = TRUE)