# XQuery

Skill · Databases

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/xquery

XQuery is a functional query language designed to extract, transform, and query data from XML documents and databases, similar in purpose to SQL for relational databases. It is used by developers working with XML-based data stores and content management systems to search and manipulate large collections of structured documents.

Related skills: [XML](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/xml), [XPath](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/xpath), [XSLT](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/xslt), [SQL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/sql), [NoSQL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/nosql)

## Open roles requiring XQuery (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.