Abstract: The World Wide Web Consortium has convened a working group to design a query language for Extensible Markup Language (XML) data sources. This new query language, called XQuery, is still ...

In this session, we are going to tackle some textual analysis with XQuery. When you are working with real world data like documents encoded according to the TEI Guidelines, your query expressions will ...

description Learn about the XQuery min() function that returns the one item in a sequence whose value is less that that of all the others. All types of the atomized values that are passed to min() ...

FLWOR stands for For, Let, Where, Order by, and Return, and it is the core expression of XQuery. FLWOR expressions allow you to iterate over sequences, bind variables, filter results, sort data, and ...

We consider the problem of rewriting XQuery queries using multiple materialized XQuery views. The XQuery dialect we use to express views and queries corresponds to tree patterns (returning data from ...

If you set out to explore XQuery, the XML query language, you’ll soon encounter a collection of examples, or use-cases, that show how XQuery can query and transform XML data. These scenarios are ...

Abstract: The modern XML query language called XQuery includes advanced facilities both to query and to transform XML data. An XQuery query optimizer should be able to optimize any query. For ...