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)
- 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]