A web browser can be used to perform simple GET-based REST requests and display the response. Some alternatives for using REST are listed in the [[#Usage Examples|Usage Examples]].
With {{Announce|BaseX 10}}, results in the {{Code|rest}} namespace will be returned unprefixed:
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
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<rest:databases xmlns:rest="http://basex.org/rest"/>
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<databases xmlns="http://basex.org/rest"/>
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