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== Example Queries Querying ==
Apart from the basic search facilities, BaseX offers far more sophisticated processing options to query your documents. Below are some examples you might give a try. This guide is far from being a comprehensive XQuery reference, but might point you in the right direction.
To execute the following queries, enter them in the XQuery Panel and hit the PLAY button.
XPath provides an easy facility to query your documents in a navigational manner. It is the basic tool of all node-related operations that you encounter when using XQuery. We will start with a trivial example and extend it to our needs.
==== Example: Find all Countries ====
<code> //country</code>
As an example, <code>//country</code> is equivalent to <code>/descendant::country</code>.
==== Example: Find the Names of all Cities in Switzerland ====
The following query uses a '''predicate''' <code>[...]</code> to filter all <code>country</code> nodes which have a <code>name</code> child, the string value of which is "Switzerland":
