[xquery-talk] Learn XQuery from XPath 2.0

[Michael Kay]

I'm not aware of anyone who has approached teaching the language from this
angle: many tutorials assume ignorance of XPath 1.0, let alone 2.0. This
reflects that fact that many people seem to be coming to XQuery without
previous XPath experience (in fact, a lot of them come with no real XML
experience).

The differences are essentially:

1. FLWOR expressions
2. node construction expressions
3. function declarations
4. the Query Prolog

(2) and (3) are extremely similar to their XSLT 2.0 equivalents; (4) is
largely administrivia; so the real meat is (1) - FLWOR expressions. There
are a few tutorials on FLWOR, for example my article at

http://www.stylusstudio.com/xquery_flwor.html

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at xquery.com 
> [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf Of Florent Georges
> Sent: 12 March 2006 22:40
> To: talk at xquery.com
> Subject: [xquery-talk] Learn XQuery from XPath 2.0
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>   Hi
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>   I'm looking for a good document to learn XQuery for people who have
> basis in XPath 2.0 (while using XSLT 2.0).  Is there something?
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>   BTW, the link to the XQuery Wiki on the XQuery.com home page
> <URL:http://www.xquery.com/twiki/bin/view/XQuery/WebHome> is broken.
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>   Thanks for your help.  Regards,
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> --drkm
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