Getting Started

This page gives you a brief introduction to how to start, run, and use BaseX. After you have set up BaseX, we suggest that you start with the Graphical User Interface.

Overview

First Steps

• Startup: How to get BaseX running
• Graphical User Interface (see available Shortcuts): Run queries and explore your XML structures
• Command-Line Interface: Use BaseX on the command line
• Database Server: The client/server architecture
• Web Application: The HTTP server
• DBA: Browser-based database administration

Running BaseX

• Command-Line Options
• Start Scripts
• Docker: Run BaseX in a container
• YAJSW: Install the BaseX server as a service or daemon

General Info

• Databases: How databases are created, populated and deleted
• Parsers: How XML, HTML, JSON, CSV and binary input is imported
• Catalog Resolver: Information about entity resolving
• Commands: Full overview of all database commands
• Options: Listing of all database options
• Configuration: BaseX start files and directories
• External Libraries: Optional libraries and the features they enable

Edit XQuery & XML Files

We encourage you to use the BaseX Editor to run your queries and edit your XML data.

• Integrating oXygen
• Integrating Eclipse
• Integrating IntelliJ IDEA

Tutorials & Slides

XML and XQuery

• XQuery Introduction: The main concepts of the language, with examples to run in BaseX
• XML Technologies: University course on XML, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, Validation, Databases, etc.
• XQuery: A Guided Tour: From the book “XQuery from the Experts”
• XQuery Summer Institute: Exercises and Answers
• W3 Schools XQuery Tutorial: Not affiliated with W3C

BaseX: Talks, Questions

• Our Mailing List: Join and contribute
• Stack Overflow: Questions on basex
• GitHub Issue Tracker: Confirmed bugs and feature requests
• XML Prague User Meetings: Slides and videos

BaseX: External Primers

• Tamara Marnell: BaseX for Newbies
• Paul Swennenhuis: BaseX for Dummies: Part I, Part I (files), Part II
• Neven Jovanović: BaseX Adventures
• Farid Djaïdja: XQuery pour les Humanités Numériques (French)