But Internet or no, developers today are still confronted with questions and problems, especially when dealing with relatively new languages; and this is true of XQuery, of course — How do I return a sequence of elements? How do I do grouping? How do I use variables in expressions? Why does using the default namespace make my query fail? And many more.
Since we don't want you to suffer the same way I did when I was younger, we thought it would be a good idea to share with you typical questions (and answers) that we have experienced in the past few years of work on XQuery. The result is a collection of "tips and tricks" that already covers dozens of topics, and we'll augment the collection over time.
If you have recently hit an XQuery problem about which you have a question, or if you have recently solved a problem that you think might be encountered by other XQuery users, let us know! Who knows: maybe the next addition to our tips and tricks pages to help other XQuery developers will be yours!