Getting Started with XQuery (O'Reilly)

[Posted March 9, 2005 by cook]

Bob DuCharme has put together an introductory article about XQuery on O'Reilly. "Although the W3C's XQuery language for querying XML data sources is still in Working Draft status, the recent XML 2004 conference showed that there's already plenty of interest and many implementations. While the Saxon implementation may not scale up as much as the disk-based versions that use persistent indexes and other traditional database features, you can download the free version of Saxon, install it, and use XQuery so quickly that it's a great way to start playing with the language in order to learn about what this new standard can offer you."