<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Especially that Stanford does it, and most database professors copy the slides from Stanford.</div><div class=""><a href="https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/XPath/SelfPaced/courseware/ch-querying_xml/seq-vid-xquery_introduction/" class="">https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/XPath/SelfPaced/courseware/ch-querying_xml/seq-vid-xquery_introduction/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(not that the Stanford professors understand much from XML and XQuery … but that’s a whole new discussion…)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Just a proof that, even if they DO teach XQuery, Stanford professors don’t understand what their are reaching.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Just look at the second bullet on the slide: “each expression operates and returns a sequence of ELEMENTS”.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>:-))))</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Yep, XQuery lacks a little bit of good tutorials and good books, and good teaching material.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Marketing, in general.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best</div><div>Dana</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>