How to write an inquiry flwor xquery?

Question

I have 5 cars, each car with 5 owners, I need to return those owners whose nation does not appear in the owners of other cars (can appear in the owners of the same car):

<root>
  <car>
   <id>1</id>
   <owner>
            <name>George Smith</name>
            <nation>USA</nation>
   </owner>
   <owner>
            <name>Carolina Herre</name>
            <nation>USA</nation>
   </owner>
   <owner>
            <name>Martha Belar</name>
            <nation>Denmark</nation>
   </owner>
   <owner>
            <name>Fernando Izza</name>
            <nation>Italy</nation>
   </owner>
   <owner>
            <name>George Smith</name>
            <nation>Italy</nation>
   </owner>
 </car>
 <car>
   <id>2</id>
   <owner>
            <name>George Gelar</name>
            <nation>USA</nation>
   </owner>
   <owner>
            <name>Gema Bio</name>
             <nation>Spain</nation>
    </owner>
    <owner>
             <name>Peter Vdf</name>
            <nation>Denmark</nation>
    </owner>
    <owner>
            <name>Felipe Rodriguez</name>
            <nation>Denmark</nation>
    </owner>
    <owner>
            <name>George Smith</name>
            <nation>USA</nation>
    </owner>
</car>
<car>
...
</car>
<car>
...
</car>
<car>
...
</car>
</root>

That is, given that xml, the output would be:

<owner>
    <name>Fernando Izza</name>
    <nation>Italy</nation>
    <carID>1</carID>
</owner>
<owner>
    <name>George Smith</name>
    <nation>Italy</nation>
    <carID>1</carID>
</owner>
<owner>
    <name>Gema Bio</name>
    <nation>Spain</nation>
    <carID>2</carID>
</owner>

I tried to get the list of countries that do not appear in several cars, and then get those owners who are from those countries, but I do not know how to get it.

Here's a really good rule for asking questions here. Do Not Beg. At All. Ever. — halfer, Nov 09 '17 at 12:10
Ok, sorry! I have tried the following, to get the nations of the owners of cars that only appear for a single car. But I do not know how I have to continue, or if this beginning helps me: for $c in doc("cars.xml")//car for $n in distinct-values(doc("cars.xml")//car/owner/nation/text()) let $m := $c/owner/nation/text() return if ($n=$m) then {$n} else () — Leon, Nov 09 '17 at 13:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '17 at 14:05

You can just group the owners by their nation and then look upwards to see if the nation occurs below more than one car:

for $owner in doc("cars.xml")//car/owner
group by $nation := $owner/nation
where count($owner/..) eq 1
for $o in $owner
return <owner>{
  $o/*,
  <carID>{$o/../id/text()}</carID>
}</owner>

How to write an inquiry flwor xquery?

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