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Asked: 2026-06-09T17:44:34+00:00

I’ve got a big XML file containing data concerning a Hotel chain. Per week,

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I’ve got a big XML file containing data concerning a Hotel chain. Per week, per day, per hotel they keep some data for their report:

    <Report week="1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="report.xsd">
        <Days>
            <Day id="1" naam="Monday">
                <Hotels>
                    <Hotel id="1" naam="Bonotel Antwerp">
                        <Stays>
                            <Stay id="1">
                                <Room id="1" number="1"/>
                                <Roomtype id="1" naam="oneperson" price="20.00"/>
                                <Period id="1" naam="lowseason" price="20.00"/>
                                <Formula id="1" naam="roomandbreakfast" price="20.00"/>
                                <Facilities>
                                    <Facility id="1" naam="swimming" price="5.00"/>
                                    <Facility id="2" naam="golf" price="20.00"/>
                                </Facilities>
                                <Guest id="1" naam="John Williams"/>
                            </Stay>
                            <Stay id="2">
                                <Room id="2" number="2"/>
                                <Roomtype id="1" naam="oneperson" price="20.00"/>
                                <Period id="1" naam="lowseason" price="20.00"/>
                                <Formula id="1" naam="roomandbreakfast" price="20.00"/>
                                <Facilities>
                                    <Facility id="2" naam="golf" price="20.00"/>
                                    <Facility id="3" naam="minibar" price="10.00"/>
                                </Facilities>
                                <Guest id="2" naam="Ray Kurzweil"/>
                            </Stay>
                            <Stay id="3">
                                <Room id="3" number="3"/>
                                <Roomtype id="2" naam="twoperson" price="40.00"/>
                                <Period id="1" naam="lowseason" price="20.00"/>
                                <Formula id="2" naam="halfpension" price="30.00"/>
                                <Facilities>
                                    <Facility id="4" naam="tennis" price="20.00"/>
                                    <Facility id="4" naam="tennis" price="20.00"/>
                                </Facilities>
                                <Guest id="3" naam="Stephen Hawking"/>
                            </Stay>
                        </Stays>
                    </Hotel>
(: ... Other Hotels ... :)
                </Hotels>
            </Day>
(: ... Other Days ... :)
        </Days>
    </Report>

Using XQuery, I have to calculate what the average guests spends. This is the sum of the Roomtype price, the Periode price, the Formula price and the sum of the facilities. I came up with this XQuery:

xquery version "1.0";
<ReportResult week="1">
{
    for $x in (1 to 7)
    return
        for $stays in doc("report.xml")//Report/Days/Day[@id=$x]/Hotels/Hotel[@id=1]/Stays
        let $average := avg(
            for $v in $stays/Stay
                return sum($v/Roomtype/@price) + sum($v/Facilities/Facility/@prijs) + sum($v/Formula/@price) + sum($v/Period/@price)
        )           
        return
        <AverageSpending hotel="Bonotel Antwerpen" day="{data($x)}">
            {data(round-half-to-even($average, 2))}     
        </AverageSpending>
    }
</Reportresult>

This produces the result I expect:

<Reportresult week="1">
    <Averagespending hotel="Bonotel Antwerpen" day="1">101.67</AverageSpending>
    <Averagespending hotel="Bonotel Antwerpen" day="2">321.67</AverageSpending>
    (: ... etc... :)
    <Averagespending hotel="Bonotel Antwerpen" day="2">255</AverageSpending>
</Reportresult>

However, I also would like to calculate the total average. So the sum of all averages divided by the 7 days to output something like

<TotalAverage>198,67</TotalAverage>

But I’m having trouble calculating this Total Average. In Java I would use a total variable and increment it with the calculated average each loop but obviously that doesn’t work here. How would I be able to do this with XQuery? Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    By example you can assign to a variable the first part of your request and calculate the total average on it and concat the both results :

    xquery version "1.0";
<ReportResult week="1">
{ let $averages := 
 for $x in (1 to 7)
 return
    for $stays in doc("report.xml")//Report/Days/Day[@id=$x]/Hotels/Hotel[@id=1]/Stays
    let $average := avg(
        for $v in $stays/Stay
            return sum($v/Roomtype/@price) + sum($v/Facilities/Facility/@prijs) + sum($v/Formula/@price) + sum($v/Period/@price)
    )           
    return
    <AverageSpending hotel="Bonotel Antwerpen" day="{data($x)}">
        {data(round-half-to-even($average, 2))}     
    </AverageSpending>
return ($averages,<TotalAverage>{avg($averages)}</TotalAverage>)
</Reportresult>
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