MonetDB/XQuery Reference Manual

MonetDB/XQuery Reference Manual

Last updated: Feb 2, 2008

Portions created by CWI are Copyright (C) 1997-July 2008 CWI. Copyright August 2008-2009 MonetDB B.V.

Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. The latest documentation can be downloaded as a xqrymanual.pdf.

This is the reference manual of MonetDB/XQuery, and open-source XQuery database system built on:

• the open-source MonetDB column-store, developed at CWI.
• the open-source Pathfinder XQuery to relational algebra compiler, developed at Technical University Munich.
• the open-source PF/Tijah XML information retrieval system, developed at Technical University Twente.

This manual attempts at collecting all relevant information about the functionality of the system. For a quick hands-on introduction to MonetDB/XQuery, we refer to the Tutorial.

• General Introduction: Background about this manual and the MonetDB project.
• Server Management: Start and stop MonetDB/XQuery, and manage XML document collections.
• Client Interfaces: How to interact with MonetDB/XQuery.
• XQuery Reference: All W3C supported XQuery features and the Function Reference (including all Extension Functions)
• XQuery Extensions: all non-standard features explained: XRPC, PF/Tijah text indexing, Closure, NIDs, Collection Node, StandOff
• Programming Interfaces: How to access MonetDB/XQuery from application code.