structure of a AWQL query bypass ASR resolution, send query to specific AAs list of ECS understood by the client list of spatial reference systems acceptable for the sender list of geodata formats acceptable for the sender specify the number of nearest neighbors, the target attribute for the spatial ordering and the referencePoint for "near" specify the update in the query specify attribute instances to append delete the resulting objects of the query choose with objects have to be in the result set former: inside former: overlaps a "path" to the part of a Nexus Attribute to be compared in dot notation - i.e. pos.value or pos.meta.validTime. In comparsons, it must be the complete path, in filters it can be a subtree (pos.meta). a comparison operator filter which attributes (and part of attributes) the objects in the result set should have filter which attributes (and part of attributes) the objects in the result must not have