XQuery resources

First steps

• From David J. Birnbaum’s course materials
  • What can XPath do for me?
  • The XPath functions we use most
  • Getting started with XQuery
• By Michael Kay
  • Learn XQuery in 10 minutes: an XQuery tutorial (updated version)
  • Blooming FLWOR - an introduction to the XQuery FLWOR expression

W3C specifications

• XML Path Language (XPath) 3.1
• XQuery 3.1: An XML Query Language
• XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.1

Other Internet references

• Official eXist-db documentation and function library
• Priscilla Walmsley’s FunctX XQuery function library
• XQuery WikiBook
• Joe Wicentowski’s Learn XQuery: A list of great articles, blog posts, and books for learning XQuery

Books

• eXist. A NoSQL document database and application platform. Erik Siegel and Adam Retter, O’Reilly Media, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-1449337100, ISBN-10: 1449337104.
• XQuery. 2nd edition. Priscilla Walmsley. O’Reilly Media, 2016. ISBN-13: 978-1491915103 ISBN-10: 9781491915103.
• XQuery for Humanists. Clifford B. Anderson and Joseph C. Wicentowski. Texas A&M University Press, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-62349-829-0. ISBN-13: 978-1623498290, ISBN-10: 1623498295.

Discussion venues

• eXist-open (eXist-db-specific)
• XQuery talk (general XQuery)
• eXist-db slack (public eXist-db developer discussion)