Hello Niels,
welcome to the wonderfully weird world of XQuery and BaseX :)
We do have a quite extensive help at http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Main_Page, which should give you some pointers.
At http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Getting_Started you can find some introductions by other people, particularly BaseX for Dummies by Paul Swennenhuis and BaseX Adventures by Neven Jovanovic might be helpful.
The wikibook might still be helpful. Yes, it is written using eXist, but most of the code is plain XQuery. However, it is a bit outdated as it does not use more advanced 3.0 features. For most functions eXists provides there are similar functions in BaseX.
For general XQuery learning the book by Priscilla Walmsley is still very useful. Also, the new Book about eXist is good and many parts are just generic XQuery.
Well, and from personal experience I can recommend enrolling into the University of Konstanz and taking Christians BaseX- and XML lecture ;)
Cheers, Dirk
On 05/06/2015 02:25 PM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote:
I've used ColdFusion and (reluctantly) php with MySQL, so I have some idea about combining database query with html tags to get formatted output … but I'd welcome a pointer to a tutorial about doing the same thing with Base-X
Also, what would you recommend as an introduction to xQuery? w3schools … I seem to remember this was a bit brief, and this afternoon I can't get it to load anyway; wikiBooks on xQuery already incudes exist-DB specific code in the second of its "Beginning examples".
Thanks in advance!