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A Light but Formal Introduction to XQuery

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We give a light-weight but formal introduction to XQuery by defining a sublanguage of XQuery. We ignore typing, and don’t consider namespaces, comments, programming instructions, and entities. To avoid confusion we call our version LiXQuery (Light XQuery). LiXQuery is fully downwards compatible with XQuery. Its syntax and its semantics are far less complex than that of XQuery, but the typical expressions of XQuery are included in LiXQuery. We claim that LiXQuery is an elegant and simple sublanguage of XQuery that can be used for educational and research purposes. We give the complete syntax and the formal semantics of LiXQuery.

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  1. University of Antwerp, Middelheimlaan 1, BE-2020, Antwerp, Belgium

    Jan Hidders, Jan Paredaens, Roel Vercammen & Serge Demeyer

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  1. LIRMM - UMR 5506 CNRS / Université Montpellier 2, 161 Rue Ada, F-34392, Montpellier Cedex 5

    Zohra Bellahsène

  2. School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University,  

    Tova Milo

  3. Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, WA 98052, Redmond, USA

    Michael Rys

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington,  

    Dan Suciu

  5. Universität Duisburg-Essen,  

    Rainer Unland

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Hidders, J., Paredaens, J., Vercammen, R., Demeyer, S. (2004). A Light but Formal Introduction to XQuery. In: Bellahsène, Z., Milo, T., Rys, M., Suciu, D., Unland, R. (eds) Database and XML Technologies. XSym 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3186. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30081-6_2

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