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RE: looking for xquery-related tutorial or book

• To: <michael.h.kay@n...>,"'Qiang Song'" <sq02@k...>,"'xml-dev'" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: looking for xquery-related tutorial or book
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:40:43 -0500
• In-reply-to: <000201c3c0d1$1bb88040$6401a8c0@pcukmka>
• References: <20031212062641.HPWG14657.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@m...><000201c3c0d1$1bb88040$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

At 11:57 12.12.2003, Michael Kay wrote:
>Jonathan's article is from "XQuery from the Experts" (Addison Wesley)
>which is one of the few books out there, but it's designed primarily to
>explain the thinking of the language design, not as a tutorial.

True - but the Guided Tour is definitely designed to teach the language - 
at 80 pages, it is probably too detailed to be considered a tutorial. It 
can be found here:

http://www.datadirect.com/news/whatsnew/xquerybook.asp

But of course, Qiang Song already has this. I don't know anything better to 
give him at this time.

Jonathan 

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