Steve Jones - SSC Editor - Thursday, November 16, 2017 8:35 AM
It's definitely not pretty, and doesn't perform well. Learning XQuery isn't easy, either.
You may think it's easy now, Eirikur, but I suspect you're discounting your efforts in the past to get here.
It's better than XPath which I used back in 1999/2000 until 2007/8 when XQuery came out. In fact I think XQuery is as not that bad, the SQL Server implementation is not perfect though. 😎