Getting Started
This page is one of the Main Sections of the documentation. It gives a quick introduction on how to start, run, and use BaseX.
Overview
- First Steps
- Startup: How to get BaseX running
- Command-Line Options
- User Interfaces
- Graphical User Interface (see available Shortcuts)
- Database Server: The client/server architecture
- Standalone Mode: The comand-line interface
- Web Application: The HTTP server
- DBA: Browser-based database administration
- General Info
- Databases: How databases are created, populated and deleted
- Parsers: How different input formats can be converted to XML
- Commands: Full overview of all database commands
- Options: Listing of all database options
- Integration
Tutorials and Slides
- BaseX for Dummies (I), written by Paul Swennenhuis
- BaseX for Dummies (I), ZIP Package
- BaseX for Dummies (II)
- BaseX Adventures. Written by Neven Jovanović
- Tutorial. Written by Imed Bouchrika
- XQuery pour les Humanités Numériques by Farid Djaïdja (French)
- XML Technologies; a university course on XML, XPath, XQuery, etc.
- XQuery Tutorial; W3 Schools
- XQuery: A Guided Tour; from the book "XQuery from the Experts"
- BaseX Users Meetups; slides and examples
- Stack Overflow; questions tagged with
basex
- XQuery Summer Institute; exercises