XQuery

XQuery is a query language and functional programming language designed to query and transform collections of structured and unstructured data, primarily in the form of XML. It also supports text data and, through implementation-specific extensions, other formats like binary and relational data. Wikipedia

Created Year: 2007
Designed by: World Wide Web Consortium

Wikidata: Q850661

Influenced: JSONiq

Programming paradigms: declarative programmingfunctional programmingmodular programming

Language types: query languagefunctional programming language

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Hello World in XQuery

let $hello := "Hello World"
return $hello

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Latest data update: 2026-01-29