This code sample is adapted from Clifford B. Anderson and Joseph C. Wicentowski, XQuery for Humanists (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2020), 84. Download this code sample in its raw form. View the source on GitHub.

xquery version "3.1";

declare namespace tei = "http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0";

<placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0">
    { fn:concat("Nashville", ", ", "TN") }
</placeName>