Learn XQuery
Specifications
- XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language [Errata]
- This is the main guide to the language.
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators [Errata]
- This documents the standard XQuery library functions.
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM) [Errata]
- This describes the data model and type system which underpin the family of languages which operate on it.
- XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization [Errata]
- XQuery is a language for returning XDM values. Serialization is about the representation of those values as XML, XHTML HTML or text.
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics [Errata]
- This technical document is invaluable to implementors of XQuery.
- XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX) [Errata]
- It's certainly not pretty, but the XML Syntax is useful when creating and modifying queries programmatically..
Resources, tutorials and books
- W3C XML Query (XQuery)
- The home of XQuery at the World Wide Web Consortium.
- XQuery talk
- A popular XQuery mailing list frequented by users and developers.
- FunctX XQuery Functions
- A large collection of XQuery functions.
- xqdoc
- A documentation tool for XQuery libraries.
- XQuery
- O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language
- Addison-Wesley Professional.
- Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context
- Morgan Kaufmann.
