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Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down

It's what every technical writer fears: the moment you complete your latest book/article, what you write about either becomes obsolete or impossible for people to use.  This has happened to me a couple notable times before with book projects, but recently revealed it's ugly head with my latest 4Guys article Querying XML Data with XQuery.  In this article I discussed XQuery, a syntax for querying XML documents.  While XQuery has yet to reach a w3c standards point, it is very stable and Microsoft has (had?) released a .NET XQuery engine, available for free at XQueryServices.com.  The article demonstrates how to use the XQuery engine from XQueryServices.com on an ASP.NET Web page.  I published this article on 4Guys last week and, naturally, XQueryServices.com is now down.

If anyone from Microsoft is reading this, or if anyone has a Microsoft contact in the XML department, I have a few quick questions I'd love to have answered:

  1. Is XQueryServices.com down for the count, or just temporarily?  It appears to be down right at this moment (Monday, July 28 11:00 AM PST), and this messageboard post makes it look as if it's been down for at least 24 hours prior to now.  So, what's the long-term status?
  2. Can I publically provide the xquery.msi file that folks can download from XQueryServices.com?  Currently, the article has a link to download this MSI file from XQueryServices.com, but given the less than reliable nature of the XQueryServices.com Web site, I would like to host the file on 4Guys - is this acceptable?

Thanks to anyone who can help!

 

posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 11:06 AM

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# re: Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down 7/28/2003 11:45 PM Scott Mitchell

In case you were wondering, Dare O., one of the Microsoft XML folks, has indicated that the XQueryServices.com gateway went down over the weekend and they're working on getting it back up...

# re: Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down 8/5/2003 10:23 AM Scott Mitchell

Well, XQueryServices.com appears to be back up...

# re: Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down 11/19/2003 9:07 PM CS Kirk

It's at http://131.107.228.20/

# kate winson 1/9/2004 4:51 PM levitra

Hi, I just wanted so say thank you guys ! i really like your site and i hope you'll continue to improving it.

# re: Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down 2/19/2004 4:14 AM Francisco

Is it up or still down 19 Feb 2004

Francisco

# re: Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down 3/8/2004 8:31 AM Aleks

Down as of 3/8/2004... Did microsoft pull the plug on XQuery?

# re: Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down 4/27/2004 10:33 PM Max

It is still down 27 Apr 2004. Is there any place where I can download the XQuery.msi?

# re: Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down 7/13/2004 6:00 AM sstefe

13 Iuly 2004

The http://xqueryservices.com/ is down.

can I use xquery or not????
Plase give me an email sstefe@yahoo.com.

Thanks!

# Does anyone have the xquery.msi? 8/19/2004 5:02 AM Thomas Mox

If anyone has had the good fortune to download the file before the plug was pulled, could you please send it to me? Or alternately provide it for download :)

Cheers
Thomas

# Oooops 8/19/2004 5:23 AM Thomas Mox

Found it myself. :)
4guysfromrolla are so kind as to provide the file while we wait for MS Gogot to get the ship up and running again.

Cheers
T

# re: Just My Luck - XQueryServices.com is Down 8/19/2004 5:24 AM Thomas Mox

And the link is my name (silly me)
Here it is again:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/code/XQueryStuff.zip

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