Instead of the where clause with some/satisfies expression, you can use predicates (even nested predicates) to filter the sequence. You can even skip the FLWOR altogether and use the simple map operator.

In case you missed the live webinar, @adamretter’s talk, “XQuery is the Plumber’s Toolkit,” is now on YouTube #markupuk youtube.com/watch?v=dUtyE50i…

New in the latest @oxygenxml v22.1 maintenance build: Syntax Highlight/XQuery: Improved the recognition of functions referenced inside an XQuery map.

You can write a query like that on JSON data, with XQuery 3.1! w3.org/TR/xquery-31/#id-maps…

Watch @michaelhkay chart a new future for XSLT—with exciting implications for XQuery and XPath-based languages. Paper: archive.xmlprague.cz/2020/fi…. Video: youtube.com/watch?v=J-2Rd0-f… #xmlprague

Watch @line_o discuss xbow, an XQuery library that helps XQuery 3.1’s arrow operator (=>) meet its full potential #xmlprague github.com/line-o/xbow youtube.com/watch?v=kMU0Vmlg…

@oxygenxml Black magic! Can you tell us more what’s going on behind the scenes to allow XPath path operators to work when querying JSON documents?

XQuery & XPath improvements in oXygen 21.0: 1. Validate XQuery library modules. 2. Better autocompletion for XQuery 3.0 syntax & XPath 3.1 functions. 3. Execute XPath expressions on JSON files (using path operators!?) youtube.com/watch?v=9yHqSAWH…

That’s @ZacharyNDean’s #xqerl project. See also his intro to the project last year at #xmlprague 2018 youtu.be/JvEU5_Xq0kA

Getting ready for @ZacharyNDean’s presentation on xqerl_db at #xmlprague tomorrow? Watch his talk from last year introducing xqerl, his Erlang-based XQuery implementation, last year: youtube.com/watch?v=JvEU5_Xq…. Tomorrow’s presentation: xmlprague.cz/day2-2019/#xqer….