Examples

You can download all the numbered examples from the book or view them on this site using the chapter links below. Please note that the book contains many inline examples and informal tables that are not provided here.

In addition, the "useful functions" examples are available (with many others) at http://www.xqueryfunctions.com.

Chapter 1: Introduction to XQuery
Chapter 2: XQuery foundations
Chapter 3: Expressions: XQuery building blocks
Chapter 4: Navigating input documents using paths
Chapter 5: Adding elements and attributes to results
Chapter 6: Selecting and joining using FLWORs
Chapter 7: Sorting and grouping
Chapter 8: Functions
Chapter 9: Advanced queries
Chapter 10: Namespaces and XQuery
Chapter 11: A closer look at types
Chapter 12: Queries, prologs and modules
Chapter 13: Using schemas with XQuery
Chapter 14: Static typing
Chapter 15: Principles of query design
Chapter 16: Working with numbers
Chapter 17: Working with strings
Chapter 18: Regular expressions
Chapter 19: Working with dates, times and durations
Chapter 20: Working with qualified names, URIs and IDs
Chapter 21: Working with other XML components
Chapter 22: Additional XQuery-related standards
Chapter 23: Implementation-specific features
Chapter 24: XQuery for SQL users
Chapter 25: XQuery for XSLT users