Getting Started

This page gives you a brief introduction on how to start, run, and use BaseX. After you have set up BaseX, we suggest that you should 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 command line
• Database Server: The client/server architecture
• Web Application: The HTTP server
• DBA: Browser-based database administration

Command Line

• Command-Line Options
• Start Scripts

General Info

• Databases: How databases are created, populated and deleted
• Commands: Full overview of all database commands
• Options: Listing of all database options
• Configuration: BaseX start files and directories

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

BaseX: Introduction

• Tamara Marnell: BaseX for Newbies
• Paul Swennenhuis: BaseX for Dummies: Part I, Part I (files), Part II
• Neven Jovanović: BaseX Adventures
• Imed Bouchrika: Tutorial. Using a native XMLDBS
• Farid Djaïdja: XQuery pour les Humanités Numériques (French)

XML and XQuery

• 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.