Namespace information are represented as namespace node which maps in scope on an element Attach to every element node where namespace is declared root commentelement namespacetextelement namespacetextelement

/descendant-or-self::book[last()] //node() or //* //book[price>30] Everyday Italian Giada De Laurentiis Harry Potter J K. Rowling XQuery Kick Start James McGovern Per Bothner Kurt Cagle James Linn Vaidyanathan Nagarajan Learning XML Erik T. Ray

//author[../title[contains(string(.),"XML")]] //title[contains(string(.),"XML")]/parent::node()/child::author

for $x in //book return if(contains(string($x/title),"XML")) then (replace($x/title, "XML", "Extensible Markup Language")) else upper-case($x/title) for $x in //book return if( $x/price >= 35.00) then (replace( string($x/price), string($x/price), 40 cast as xs:string)) else $x/price XPath variable are “read-only” and cannot be modified for $x in //book let $y:=$x/price return if( $y >= 35.00) then ($y=40.00) else $x/price

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