XQuery Information

The following information and resources are recommended starting points for learning more about XQuery. This is a standard that I thought was not going to mean much, but that I think has created a really useful tool that will also be attractive to a large audience that may have started to cope with XML, but has not yet really come to grips with it. It's also a nice lightweight tool for XML-literate folks to quickly deal with regular XML data (and to take advantage of XML database technologies.

Tutorial slides

Summaries, tutorials, and introductions

Michael Kay's XQuery in 10 minutes. A nice quick tour from an expert.

Michael Kay's FLWOR overview. A little more in-depth consideration of XQuery, still in the "quick taste" category.

Michael Kay's XQuery in 10 minutes. A nice quick tour from

Michael Kay's XQuery in 10 minutes. A nice quick tour from

Michael Kay's XQuery in 10 minutes. A nice quick tour from

Michael Kay's XQuery in 10 minutes. A nice quick tour from

Michael Kay's XQuery in 10 minutes. A nice quick tour from

Michael Kay's XQuery in 10 minutes. A nice quick tour from