• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
  • Getting Started with XQuery in Stylus Studio
  • An XQuery Primer
    • What is XQuery For?
    • Your First XQueries
    • Accessing XML Documents with XQuery
    • XQuery and XPath
    • Introduction to FLWOR Expressions
    • Generating XML Output with XQuery
    • Accessing Databases with XQuery
  • Understanding FLWOR Expressions
  • Building an XQuery Using the Mapper
  • Working with the XQuery collection() Function
  • Debugging XQuery Documents
  • Creating an XQuery Scenario
  • Generating XQuery Documentation
  • Using XQuery to Invoke a Web Service
  • Generating Java Code for XQuery
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Building XML Pipelines
• Chapter 14: Publishing XML Data
• Chapter 15: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 16: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 17: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 18: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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An XQuery Primer

This XQuery primer was adapted from a whitepaper written by Dr. Michael Kay. You can read the original document on the Stylus Studio Web site. This primer covers the following topics: