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XQuery is a functional query language that operates on XML documents and fragments. It is analogous to SQL, which is a non-procedural query language that operates on tables. XQuery 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on January 23, 2007. It was developed by the XML Query Working Group. Several books about XQuery 1.0 have been published.
