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XQuery: The XML Query Language
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XQuery: The XML Query Language

by Michael Brundage
February 2004
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
9h 55m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Preface

XQuery is a deep and powerful new language, yet it's easy to pick up and start using productively right away. Accordingly, this book is designed as both an introduction for new XQuery users and a reference for experienced ones.

XQuery is the most complex XML standard to date, comprising well over a thousand pages of very dense and abstract implementation details. If you are creating an XQuery implementation yourself, you need to read them. Everyone else should read this book instead; it will save you a lot of time and confusion. This is the book I wanted when I first got started with XQuery, and am thrilled to have now.

I had the good fortune to become involved with the XQuery standard more than two years ago, before it even had the name. ...

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