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XQuery Tips and Tricks

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• Why does my relative path fail even if I set the base-uri property?

• Is there a way to number records extracted from a database?

• Can I use fn:collection() to retrieve the URL of a document in a folder?

• What's the easiest way to extract the file name from a URL?

• Can I instruct XQuery to not use the minimized XML tag format?

• How can I load XML data into my relational database?

• Can I group elements based on their relative positions?

• What's the proper way to use the node sequence (<< and >>) operators?

• Can I instruct XQuery to use numbers and not scientific notation in query results?

• Why do I get an error trying to extract values from a function returning XML?

• Can I use dynamic text as the name of a result node?

• How can I return the result of multiple expressions?

• Why does my XQuery fail when I override the default namespace?

• Can I create a library of XQuery functions?

• How can I query all documents in a folder?

• In what order does fn:collection() return documents?

• What is a context item type? And how do I set it?

• Can I include CDATA sections in my XQuery results?

• Why do I get the wrong results looking for the my book's first author?

• Can I use variables in my XPath expressions?

• How do I choose the right comparison operator?

• Can I group results based on values?

• When should I use /text() at the end of my XPath expression?

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