Description: welcome to the first installment of a new regular column on XML.com, Practical XQuery. Ivelin Ivanov and Per Bothner will be bringing us tips on the use of the XQuery language, as well as self-contained example applications. The goal of this article is to demonstrate the use of XQuery to accomplish a routine, yet interesting task; in particular, to render an HTML page that merges RSS news feeds from two different weblogs.