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XQuery Tutorial

How XQuery works as a powerful XML query language, similar to SQL for databases, with syntax examples and core concepts.

XQuery is a functional query language that is built on XPath expressions.

It is designed to query data stored in the form of XML. We can say that XQuery is to XML what SQL is to a database.

Prerequisites

You should have a basic knowledge of:

Example

for $x in doc("books.xml")/bookstore/book  
where $x/price>30  
order by $x/title  
return $x/title
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