WELCOME! ---------------------------------------------------------------

 BaseX is a light-weight, high-performance and scalable XML database
 and XQuery 4.0 processor, with full support for the W3C Update and
 Full Text extensions. Its interactive GUI gives you great insight
 into your XML documents.

 BaseX requires Java 21 or later.

CONTENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------

 This distribution contains the following files and directories:

   BaseX.jar     BaseX core library
   bin/          start scripts
   data/         database directory
   etc/          sample documents, catalog files, stopwords
   lib/          Java libraries, referenced by the start scripts
   lib/custom/   additional Java libraries
   repo/         repository for XQuery modules
   src/          your XQuery files
   webapp/       RESTXQ web applications and REST scripts

 Add the bin/ directory to your PATH to launch BaseX from anywhere.

HELP -------------------------------------------------------------------

 Our documentation is available online:

   https://docs.basex.org

 BaseX is open source and BSD-licensed. You are welcome to join our
 basex-talk mailing list and give all kinds of feedback:

   https://basex.org/open-source/

 Bugs and feature requests are discussed in our issue tracker, and
 pull requests are welcome:

   https://github.com/BaseXdb/basex

 Have fun,
 Your BaseX Team

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