XQuery tutorial - basics

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Introduction

This is a beginners tutorial for XQuery.

Prerequisites:

• Basic knowledge of XML
• Basic knowledge of Xpath, see XPath tutorial - basics

Recommended reading, before this:

• XSLT, in particular the short section on XPath.
• XML namespace

Links

Software and standards

See the XQuery article.

XQuery Tutorials

• XQuery (Wikipedia article)
• XQuery - Wikibook
• Essential XQuery - The XML Query Language by Darshan Singh. (Feb 2, 2004). Good !
• XQuery Tutorial by P. Fankhauser and P. Wadler.
• An introduction to XQuery, IBM Developer works (2002, updated 2006).
• XQuery, tutorial by Anders Möller & Michael I. Schwartzbach [2003]. See also:
  • Chapter 6 - Querying XML Documents with XQuery (slides) and their book An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies, ISBN 0321269667
• XQuery Tutorial from IPEDO. Quite technical.
• XQuery from the Experts: Influences on the design of XQuery Webreference Article, excerpt is from Chapter 2 of the Addison-Wesley book XQuery from the Experts. [2003]
• Michael Brundage (2004). XQuery: The XML Query Language, Portland: Book News [this is a good book]
• Comparing XSLT and XQuery by Michael Kay, Saxonica (not really a tutorial, but useful)

XQuery Web sites

• DataDirect's XQuery Developer Center (tutorials, examples, software)