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XQuery Tutorial

XQuery is to XML what SQL is to database tables.

XQuery was designed to query XML data.

XQuery Example

for $x in doc("books.xml")/bookstore/book
where $x/price>30
order by $x/title
return $x/title

At W3Schools you will find a complete reference of all the operators, built-in functions, and data types in XQuery 1.0.