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Welcome to the documentation and manual of BaseX – a light-weight, high-performance and scalable XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor with full support for the W3C Update and Full Text extensions (Wikipedia Entry).

This documentation is based on BaseX 6.7.1; some features might not be available in earlier versions. Features that have been added in a recent version are flagged in red (e.g.: Version 6.8).

Getting Started

The Getting Started Section gives you a quick introduction to BaseX. We suggest to start with the graphical frontend (BaseX GUI) as this is the easiest way to access your XML data and get an idea of how BaseX works.

Categories: Beginners, Instructions

XQuery Portal

More information on using the wide range of XQuery functions and performing XPath and XQuery requests with BaseX can be found in our XQuery Portal.

Categories: XQuery

 

Developer Section

The Developer Section provides useful information for developers. Here you can find information on various alternatives to integrate BaseX into your own project.

Categories: Developer, JAX-RX, REST, APIs, Code Examples

Advanced User's Guide

Information for advanced users can be found in our Advanced Usage Section, which contains details on the BaseX storage and the Server architecture, and presents some more GUI features.

Categories: Internals

Your contributions in this Wiki are welcome. Due to repeated spamming activites, we have blocked free access to this Wiki, but it's easy to get an account and request editor permissions. If you are looking for direct contact, please don’t hesitate and write to our mailing list (basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de).