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When I became the webmaster of the Dutch Origami Society website last year, I did a complete overhaul of the design. In a previous project I had come across the powerful features of CSS and this website allowed my to dive right into it and explore it to my heart’s content.

The result is not too bad, considering this is my first website design and I’m more of a developer than a designer. However, there are some things I’m not satisfied with and then there’s the general sense of “it could be cleaner, better designed”. So I kept on reading.

XQuery Tutorial
XQueryNow – Free tools and techniques to build XML-based information systems –
Qexo: The GNU Kawa implementation of XQuery

XQuery: A Guided Tour – Download the free tutorial today: XQuery: Developer: Home

Trial and error got me as far as writing an xquery to group related XML fragments in a new order, based on a key/value pair. Now it was time to move that query into a function of its own.
Several Google searches later I found either “define function myfunction()” or “declare function myfunction()”. Both resulted in [...]

Somehow it’s impossible to find information about XQuery that explains how to use it. There is of course the information in the W3C specs, and some tutorials, but they hardly go beyond the “hello world” level.
I’m faced with the task of reshuffling a huge XML file into something that can be imported in a [...]