Bonjour, just a little pointer: If you speak french and are new to XQuery (and especially if you are in the digital humanities) the following chapters from Farid Djaïdjas thesis might be of interest to you: "XQuery pour les Humanités Numériques" http://files.basex.org/publications/dummies/XQuery%20pour%20les%20Humanit%e9... This introduction and some others introductions and further material to get you started can be found at http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Getting_Started#Tutorials_and_Slides Bien cordialement Dirk -- Dirk Kirsten, BaseX GmbH, http://basexgmbh.de |-- Firmensitz: Blarerstrasse 56, 78462 Konstanz |-- Registergericht Freiburg, HRB: 708285, Geschäftsführer: | Dr. Christian Grün, Dr. Alexander Holupirek, Michael Seiferle `-- Phone: 0049 7531 91 68 276, Fax: 0049 7531 20 05 22