Excellent survey of a complex topic by some of the designers

Full disclosure: I know all of the authors and count them among my friends.

In spite of that, I can honestly say that I think this book is a very valuable guide to the emerging standard query language for XML. The insights provided by people who are actually doing the day-to-day design, and implementation in some cases, of this language are not available in any other XQuery book.

The various chapters of the book provide overviews, design precepts, detailed examples, and thorough explanations (even of subjects as arcane as the static typing rules of the language).

I enthusiastically encourage everybody interested in XQuery to add this book to their libraries.

Other Reviews

• An excellent XQuery starter book and reference
• Nice coverage of XQuery/XPath
• Excellent survey of a complex topic by some of the designers
• Good for XQuery side topics
• Very informative set of essays