VRA website example

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VRA website example

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Last edited Nov 22, 2014

Created on Nov 22, 2014

This example demonstrates a focused query of a VRA XML metadata record, extracting and displaying only the `locationSet` element from the source document. The code uses the eXist-db HTTP Client module (`http:send-request`) to fetch the remote XML file from GitHub, then applies an XQuery path expression to isolate the location data. The visualization shows how structured art metadata can be programmatically filtered to reveal just geographic or provenance-related information. By leveraging the VRA Core 4 namespace declaration, the script ensures precise element selection, making it a practical tool for targeted data extraction in digital humanities projects.

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