O’Reilly Media book: XQuery, 2nd Edition

• http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920035589.do
• http://www.datypic.com/books/xquery/examples.html – sample queries and XML files
• http://www.xqueryfunctions.com

I am executing the examples with Saxon (“Home Edition”), e.g.:

$ saxon net.sf.saxon.Query example0105.xqy

It does help though to have a more serious look at Saxon’s “using XQuery” (on the command line) documentation. There are quite a few command line options, and some of them may be of interest to you occasionally.

Some (or even all?!?) sample XML files need to be made available by different names; these names get shown inside the files themselves. E.g. if example0101.xml is not (also) available as catalog.xml, then example0105.xqy will not work.