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XQuery from the Experts

Learn the basics of the XML query language with this tutorial by XML expert Jonathan Robie. Jonathan is XML Program Manager at DataDirect Technologies, an editor of several of the XQuery specifications, and a well-known speaker at XML conferences.

The tutorial presents the XQuery language in detail using a series of queries that illustrate both the mechanics of the language and the rationale for the features of XQuery. It is excerpted from the recent book that Jonathan collaborated on called "XQuery from the Experts - A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language."

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*Note: This XQuery tutorial is available as an excerpt from XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language by Howard Katz, Don Chamberlin, Denise Draper, Mary Fernandez, Michael Kay, Jonathan Robie, Michael Rys, Jerome Simeon, Jim Tivy, and Philip Wadler, (ISBN 0-321-18060-7), copyright 2004. All rights reserved. Chapter 1, titled "XQuery: A Guided Tour," contains the tutorial and is written by Jonathan Robie. It is posted with permission from Addison-Wesley.