This article introduces an XQuery library that allows code generation according to the OpenAPI 3.0.2 standard based on RESTXQ. It uses xqDoc as well as XQuery function annotation with %rest and %test prefix, combined with type declaration and also searches for general information in package description resources (expath-pkg.xml and repo.xml). It ships with the “swagger-ui-dist” package grabbed from npm, but can be built without by ant.

Since a couple of years we prepare applications for the eXist-db ecosystem based on the EXPath Package standard. Last week we setup the first test environment. No questions; no excuses: Tests are extremely important! In some cases one can start developing a software by specifying a test, so called Test Driven Development.

Here is a cheat sheet to XQuery serialization.