An example document to query

Most of the examples in this talk query this bibliography document at the (fictional) URL http://www.bn.com/bib.xml:

<bib>
  <book year="1994">
    <title>TCP/IP Illustrated</title>
    <author><last>Stevens</last><first>W.</first></author>
    <publisher>Addison-Wesley</publisher>
    <price> 65.95</price>
  </book>

  <book year="1992">
    <title>Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment</title>
    <author><last>Stevens</last><first>W.</first></author>
    <publisher>Addison-Wesley</publisher>
    <price>65.95</price>
  </book>

  <book year="2000">
    <title>Data on the Web</title>
    <author><last>Abiteboul</last><first>Serge</first></author>
    <author><last>Buneman</last><first>Peter</first></author>
    <author><last>Suciu</last><first>Dan</first></author>
    <publisher>Morgan Kaufmann Publishers</publisher>
    <price> 39.95</price>
  </book>

  <book year="1999">
    <title>The Economics of Technology and Content for Digital TV</title>
    <editor>
      <last>Gerbarg</last><first>Darcy</first>
      <affiliation>CITI</affiliation>
    </editor>
      <publisher>Kluwer Academic Publishers</publisher>
    <price>129.95</price>
  </book>

</bib>

Adapted from Mary Fernandez, Jerome Simeon, and Phil Wadler: XML Query Languages: Experiences and Exemplars, 1999, as adapted in XML Query Use Cases