The XQuery Input View

A node can be dragged and dropped in the editor area for quickly inserting doc() or other XQuery expressions.

XQuery Input view

Create FLWOR by drag and drop

For the following XML documents:

                    <movies>
                    <movie id="1">
                    <title>The Green Mile</title>
                    <year>1999</year>
                    </movie>
                    <movie id="2">
                    <title>Taxi Driver</title>
                    <year>1976</year>
                    </movie>
                    </movies>

and

                    <reviews>
                    <review id="100" movie-id="1">
                    <rating>5</rating>
                    <comment>It is made after a great Stephen King book.
                    </comment>
                    <author>Paul</author>
                    </review>
                    <review id="101" movie-id="1">
                    <rating>3</rating>
                    <comment>Tom Hanks does a really nice acting.</comment>
                    <author>Beatrice</author>
                    </review>
                    <review id="104" movie-id="2">
                    <rating>4</rating>
                    <comment>Robert De Niro is my favorite actor.</comment>
                    <author>Maria</author>
                    </review>    
                    </reviews>

and the following XQuery:

                    let $review := doc("reviews.xml")
                    for $movie in doc("movies.xml")/movies/movie
                    let $movie-id := $movie/@id
                    return
                    <movie id="{$movie/@id}">
                    {$movie/title}
                    {$movie/year}
                    <maxRating>
                    {
                    
                    }
                    </maxRating>
                    </movie>

if you drag the rating element and drop between the braces a popup menu will be displayed.

XQuery Input drag and drop popup menu

Select FLWOR rating and the result document will be:

XQuery Input drag and drop result