FAQs, Help and Tutorials

An Introduction to XQuery - - Howard Katz introduces the XQuery specification, providing some background history, a road map into the documentation, and an overview of some of the technical issues involved.

Mailing List: www-ql@w3.org - - The W3C's public list for discussion of Query Languages, including (but not limited to) discussion on the XML Query project.

Schema-Aware Queries and Stylesheets - - Article by Michael Kay introducing an important new feature of XQuery and XSLT 2.0: support for XML schemas.

Stylus Studio: XQuery Zone - - Includes tools, components, tutorials, videos demonstrations, whitepapers, use cases and discussion forums.

XML Cover Pages: XML and Query Languages - - Open OASIS and Robin Cover's archive of news relating to XQuery and other XML query languages.

XQJ Tutorial: Introduction to the XQuery API for Java - - Tutorial explaining how to use XQJ (XQuery API for Java - (JSR 225), which allows programmers to invoke and process XQuery expressions from within Java applications.

XQuery: An XML Query Language - - This paper explains the need for an XML query language, provides a tutorial overview of XQuery, and includes several examples of its use. [PDF.

XQuery: Reinventing the Wheel? - - An examination of the overlap in the functionality of XQuery and XSLT, and of the use of XSLT as a query language.

X-Query.com - - Resources for programmers including the BumbleBee Test Harness.