Thanks, collection() was what I needed. I've got a lot to learn, but you've put me on the right track.

Thanks, Adrian. This is helpful. I guess I don't understand how namespaces work in XQuery, but *:head seems to work fine provisionally, as you suggested. What I'm trying to do is return various results from about 300 TEI/XML files in a github repository ("https://github.com/dig-eg-gaz/content&q...

I'm an XQuery beginner. When I run a query like declare default element namespace "https://github.com/dig-eg-gaz/content"; for $a in doc("1905-01-06.xml") return $a//head I get this error message: "your query returned an empty sequence" When I run it as declare default ...