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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<table xmlns="http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/schema/table.xsd" securityLevel="any">
<meta>
<author>Sebastian Spier (http://twitter.com/#!/sebastianspier/)</author>
<description>
Displays gender of a given name and a list of countries where persons with this name can be found. The list of countries is sorted by frequency starting with the country where the name is the most popular.
This YQL table uses an API from http://www.thomas-bayer.com, which in turn is based on a list from Jörg Michael (data from "nam_dict.txt" from www.heise.de/ct, soft-link 0717182), containing more than 40,000 forenames, its gender and the approximate frequency of each name in all European countries and in a lot of other countries like China, India, U.S.A. and Japan.
</description>
<documentationURL>http://www.thomas-bayer.com/restnames/</documentationURL>
<sampleQuery>SELECT * FROM {table} WHERE name="Sebastian"</sampleQuery>
</meta>
<bindings>
<select itemPath="restnames" produces="XML">
<urls>
<url>http://www.thomas-bayer.com/restnames/name.groovy</url>
</urls>
<inputs>
<key id="name" type="xs:string" paramType="query" required="true"/>
</inputs>
</select>
</bindings>
</table>