A few days ago, I mentioned that Dr. Michael Kay got me really excited with his "Learn XQuery 10 Minutes" piece over on the StylusStudio web site. He got me exicited enough that I put together a SQL Server 2005 flavored version of it! Because its a fairly long piece, and I'm feeling lazy about cleaning up Word's messy HTML output, I've published it here as a PDF. It has a supporting script as well that you can download from here.
Note if you're having a hard time making the images out, you can see them online at http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/photos/ktegels/picture16876.aspx
Comments on this welcome this blog post. Please do and keep in mind that its fairly rough and unpolished. Wrote this while attending today's MSDN Event here in Omaha. Not that it wasn't interesting, but I wanted to get this off my plate before PASS.