[xquery-talk] What is XQuery?

[Benito van der Zander]

Hi,

occasionally I am asked, "What is XQuery? Why is it useful? Are there
any examples?", so I send the people to https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
and they have trouble understanding it...

So what are the best books and tutorials about XPath/XQuery for beginners ?


Cheers,

Benito
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[Michael Kay]

"XQuery from the Experts"

https://www.amazon.com/XQuery-Experts-Guide-Query-Language/dp/0321180607

A bit dated (2003), and probably only available second-hand, but there's a lot of material on the concepts and purpose and role of the language rather than just a tutorial or a reference manual.

If you want a textbook to learn the language, on the other hand, Priscilla Walmsley is excellent:

https://www.amazon.com/XQuery-Search-Across-Variety-Data/dp/1491915102

There's also a Michael Rys book but I haven't read it.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

Hi,
occasionally I am asked, "What is XQuery? Why is it useful? Are there any examples?", so I send the people to https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ and they have trouble understanding it...
So what are the best books and tutorials about XPath/XQuery for beginners ?
Cheers,
Benito
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[Ronald Bourret]

You can find a list of XQuery tutorials at:

http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDBLinks.htm#XQuery

These are ones I thought were useful about 15 years ago.

Not on the list is the tutorial from W3Schools:

https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xquery_intro.asp

-- Ron

Post by Benito van der Zander
Hi,
occasionally I am asked, "What is XQuery? Why is it useful? Are there
any examples?", so I send the people to https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
and they have trouble understanding it...
So what are the best books and tutorials about XPath/XQuery for beginners ?
Cheers,
Benito
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[Murray, Gregory]

A good introductory book is Getting Started With XQuery by Ron Hitchens.
It's out of print, but you might be able to find second-hand copies online.

Post by Benito van der Zander
Hi,
occasionally I am asked, "What is XQuery? Why is it useful? Are there
any examples?", so I send the people to https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
and they have trouble understanding it...
So what are the best books and tutorials about XPath/XQuery for beginners ?
Cheers,
Benito
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[Loren Cahlander]

You can also try looking at:

I have a slide presentation that I made as a brief introduction to XQuery.
https://www.slideshare.net/LorenCahlander/xquery-a-technical-overview <https://www.slideshare.net/LorenCahlander/xquery-a-technical-overview>

There is a excellent resource as a WkikBook
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery <https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery>

Post by Murray, Gregory
A good introductory book is Getting Started With XQuery by Ron Hitchens.
It's out of print, but you might be able to find second-hand copies online.

Post by Benito van der Zander
Hi,
occasionally I am asked, "What is XQuery? Why is it useful? Are there
any examples?", so I send the people to https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/
and they have trouble understanding it...
So what are the best books and tutorials about XPath/XQuery for beginners ?
Cheers,
Benito
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[Adam Retter]

You can also find slides from the XML Summer School in Oxford for the
XQuery track here - http://www.adamretter.org.uk/presentations.xml

Hi,
occasionally I am asked, "What is XQuery? Why is it useful? Are there any
examples?", so I send the people to https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ and they
have trouble understanding it...
So what are the best books and tutorials about XPath/XQuery for beginners ?
Cheers,
Benito
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[Joe Wicentowski]

Hi all,

Thanks for these links! I've adapted many of these into the Learn XQuery
list that I maintain:

https://github.com/joewiz/learn-xquery

From the description: "A list of great articles, blog posts, and books for
learning XQuery. Let's show the world how to learn XQuery. Pull requests
welcome. Quality over comprehensiveness - just the best, most helpful
resources, please."

Joe

Post by Adam Retter
You can also find slides from the XML Summer School in Oxford for the
XQuery track here - http://www.adamretter.org.uk/presentations.xml

Hi,
occasionally I am asked, "What is XQuery? Why is it useful? Are there any
examples?", so I send the people to https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ and

they

have trouble understanding it...
So what are the best books and tutorials about XPath/XQuery for

beginners ?

Cheers,
Benito
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[W.S. Hager]

Hi all,

Please note that all your replies landed in spam...

Post by Joe Wicentowski
Hi all,
Thanks for these links! I've adapted many of these into the Learn XQuery
https://github.com/joewiz/learn-xquery
From the description: "A list of great articles, blog posts, and books for
learning XQuery. Let's show the world how to learn XQuery. Pull requests
welcome. Quality over comprehensiveness - just the best, most helpful
resources, please."
Joe

Post by Adam Retter
You can also find slides from the XML Summer School in Oxford for the
XQuery track here - http://www.adamretter.org.uk/presentations.xml

Post by Benito van der Zander
Hi,
occasionally I am asked, "What is XQuery? Why is it useful? Are there

any

Post by Benito van der Zander
examples?", so I send the people to https://www.w3.org/TR/xquery/ and

they

Post by Benito van der Zander
have trouble understanding it...
So what are the best books and tutorials about XPath/XQuery for

beginners ?

Post by Benito van der Zander
Cheers,
Benito
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[Christian Grün]

Hi Benito, hi all,

W. S. Hager just indicated that some answers landed in spam. As his
reply also landed in my spam folder, I’ll quote the interesting
references again (and I hope that my e-mail will make it to everyone’s
inbox):

This was Joe Wicentowski’s link to his comprehensive »Learn XQuery« list:

https://github.com/joewiz/learn-xquery

This was Adam Retter’s helpful link to the XML Summer School slides:

http://www.adamretter.org.uk/presentations.xml

And I’m adding a link to our lecture slides on XML, XPath and XQuery
(some of the slide sets are BaseX-specific, though):

http://phobos103.inf.uni-konstanz.de/xml15/

Hope this helps,
Christian

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