Everything about XQuery

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: XQueryA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Blogs as data: using XQuery for content evaluationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Einführung in XQueryThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: XQuery: An XML query languageCited 76 times
5. Go sideways: XPathA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: JSONiqA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• XQuery: An XML query language

  D. Chamberlin · 2002 · IBM Systems Journal · 76 citations

• The BEA streaming XQuery processor

  Daniela Florescu, Chris Hillery, Donald Kossmann · 2004 · The VLDB Journal · 29 citations

• Querying fuzzy spatiotemporal data using XQuery

  Luyi Bai, Li Yan, Z.M. Ma · 2014 · Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering · 25 citations

• Enabling Schema-Free XQuery with meaningful query focus

  Yunyao Li, Cong Yu, H. V. Jagadish · 2006 · The VLDB Journal · 24 citations

• On the complexity of nonrecursive XQuery and functional query languages on complex values

  Christoph Koch · 2006 · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 24 citations

• Securing native XML database-driven web applications from XQuery injection vulnerabilities

  Nushafreen Palsetia, G. Deepa, Furqan Ahmed Khan · 2016 · Journal of Systems and Software · 23 citations

• XQuery reloaded

  Roger Bamford, Vinayak Borkar, Matthias Brantner · 2009 · Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment · 22 citations

• From XQuery to relational logics

  Michael Benedikt, Christoph Koch · 2009 · ACM Transactions on Database Systems · 22 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Blogs as data: using XQuery for content evaluation

  Eli Wachter, Elizabeth A. Mullen · 2026 · Journal of the Medical Library Association · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Einführung in XQueryRudolf Jansen · 2004
• XQueryMichael Brundage · 2004
• 📕XQuery for HumanistsClifford B. Anderson, Joseph C. Wicentowski · 2020

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