Abstract
The aim of our research was to gather a representative set of real-world XQuery queries and perform its analysis in order to confirm or refute distinct hypotheses about query complexity. The data were gathered using a modified crawler, then cleaned, corrected, and validated.
The main subject of the analysis was usage of XQuery grammar symbols. We also analyzed the XML documents referenced from the XQuery queries as well as their outputs.
To the best of our knowledge this is the first analysis of this kind and extent.