Tamino XQuery User Guide - Software AG Documentation

Related Information
The XQuery documentation focuses on XQuery as a language. However, as database queries are
the principal means of communication with the database server, it might happen that you have a
problem which arose because of a certain query. If you do not find the information in the XQuery
documentation, you might have a look at the following sources of information, all of which also
deal with aspects of querying a Tamino database:
Internal Resources
■ Using the Tamino Interactive Interface to Query a Database with Tamino XQquery: This section
describes how to query a database object using the Tamino Interactive Interface.
■ Efficient Queries: XQuery: Here you will find some advice for speeding up your queries.
■ Querying Using X-Machine Commands: This section explains how to directly query a database
using HTTP and X-Machine command verbs.
■ XML Schema Datatypes: This section explains the data types defined in the XML Schema specification
which are used by XQuery.
■ Storing Non-XML Objects in Tamino: This section explains how to represent and query objects
that are in some other format, such as binary data.
■ Character Encoding of XML Objects: This section discusses the character encoding of XML objects
when querying them directly using HTTP and X-Machine command verbs.
■ Migrating from X-Query to Tamino XQuery (in the section Migrating Applications of the Migration
Guide): This section gives some advice for application developers concerning changes from the
previous implementation called X-Query to Tamino XQuery.
W3C Resources
■ The XQuery 1.0 language, as specified by the W3C, consists of the following documents:
■ XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
The official XQuery recommendation of the W3C, which forms part of the basis of Tamino
XQuery.
■ XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)
The official XQuery recommendation of the W3C that describes the underlying data model
used for XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0.
■ XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization
The official XQuery recommendation of the W3C that describes how to serialize an instance
of the data model into a sequence of octets.
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