Introduction

At eLife we naturally have a lot of XML. Often we want to run quick queries over our XML to extract a short report, or to check for errors in the XML. We have found Xquery used via basex to be useful for some of these tasks. This repo contains some example Xquery scripts.

eLife XMl

We run these scripts over our XML corpus. You can access a copy of our XML corpus from the github repo elife-articles.

Example scripts

These examples assume that you have a set of eLife xml articles in an elife-articles subdirectory of directory that the examples are contained in.

Further Reading

basex syntax highlighting in Atom for Xquery basex recepies
basex examples JsonIQ