Tamara,
Thanks for this—I’ve forwarded the link to my team who are very much in the “What is this BaseX thing again?” phase…
I also found _XQuery for Humanists_ (https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781623498290/xquery-for-humanists/) to be a really
good introduction to XQuery once you’re ready to dig in a bit more deeply. While it’s not BaseX-specific BaseX is an ideal platform for putting the samples into practice.
Cheers,
E.
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Date: Friday, March 25, 2022 at 2:42 PM
To: BaseX <basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de>
Subject: [basex-talk] BaseX for Newbies Tutorial
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Hello everyone,
When I began developing our finding aids website last summer, I was a complete newbie to XML databases. I lacked the basic knowledge needed to understand the documentation, or even how to navigate it. Even
Paul Swennenhuis's "BaseX for Dummies" (2014) was too advanced for me to follow. "FLWOR?" "Indexes"? I just want to do a keyword search of some files; why is this so hard?!
After extensive Googling, Stack Overflowing, and reading every conversation in this list, I finally got a handle on the basics and completed our website. I've written what I learned in a foundational primer,
"BaseX for Newbies," which contains basic definitions of concepts like "client/server architecture" and "modules," XQuery examples using U.S. Library of Congress finding aids, and solutions for problems that tripped me up:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19A5twBhA6OT3YdlcII7fazlwXewUSNkX/view
-Tamara
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Tamara Marnell
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