As an FYI for those starting with XQuery Update, I&#39;ve found this to be a short but very practical and useful guide:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.xmlmind.com/_tutorials/XQueryUpdate/index.html">http://www.xmlmind.com/_tutorials/XQueryUpdate/index.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve successfully used BaseX to apply large numbers of updates to a database containing roughly 200,000 pages-equivalent of text.</div>