XQuery/Google Docs

= Motivation = You have data stored in a Google Docs spreadsheet. Since Google docs has an RSS feed for their data you can use this service to get well-formed XML about your spreadsheet directly from XQuery.

= Method = You can use the base URL of 'https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/' to list the data in a public spreadsheet.

you can concat these three strings together and wrap them in an xs:anyURI type to get the document using the httpcleint:get function.

= Example Code =

Which returns:

= References = This example was posted on the eXist mailing list in April of 2014 by Dr. Andreas Wagner.