Getting Started
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This page is one of the Main Sections of the documentation. It gives a quick introduction on how to start, run, and use BaseX. After you have set up BaseX, we suggest you to start with the Graphical User Interface.
Overview
- First Steps
- Startup: How to get BaseX running
- Start Scripts
- Command-Line Options
- User Interfaces
- Standalone Mode: The comand-line interface
- Graphical User Interface (see available Shortcuts)
- Database Server: The client/server architecture
- Web Application: The HTTP server
- DBA: Browser-based database administration
- General Info
- Databases: How databases are created, populated and deleted
- Binary Data: How to store and use binary data
- Parsers: How different input formats can be converted to XML
- Commands: Full overview of all database commands
- Options: Listing of all database options
- Editing XML and XQuery Files
We strongly encourage you to use the BaseX Editor to run your queries and edit your XML data.
Tutorials and Slides
BaseX: Introduction
- BaseX for Dummies. Written by Paul Swennenhuis:
Part I, Part I (files), Part II. - BaseX Adventures. Written by Neven Jovanović.
- Tutorial. Written by Imed Bouchrika.
- XQuery pour les Humanités Numériques. Written by Farid Djaïdja (French).
XML and XQuery
- XML Technologies. Our university course on XML, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, Validation, Databases, etc.
- XQuery Tutorial. From W3 Schools.
- XQuery: A Guided Tour. From the book "XQuery from the Experts".
- XQuery Summer Institute. Exercises and Answers.
BaseX: Talks, Questions
- Our Annual User Meetings. Slides and videos.
- Our Mailing List. Join and contribute.
- GitHub Issue Tracker. Please use our mailing list before entering new issues.
- Stack Overflow. Questions on
basex
.