Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context

by Jim Melton, Stephen Buxton

Overview

XML has become the lingua franca for representing business data, for exchanging information between business partners and applications, and for adding structure–and sometimes meaning—to text-based documents. XML offers some special challenges and opportunities in the area of search: querying XML can produce very precise, fine-grained results, if you know how to express and execute those queries.For software developers and systems architects: this book teaches the most useful approaches to querying XML documents and repositories. This book will also help managers and project leaders grasp how “querying XML” fits into the larger context of querying and XML. Querying XML provides a comprehensive background from fundamental concepts (What is XML?) to data models (the Infoset, PSVI, XQuery Data Model), to APIs (querying XML from SQL or Java) and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558607118
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	03/06/2006
Series:	The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems
Pages:	848
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jim Melton is editor of all parts of ISO/IEC 9075 (SQL) and is a representative for database standards at Oracle Corporation. Since 1986, he has been his company's representative to ANSI INCITS Technical Committee H2 for Database and a US representative to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG3 (Database Languages). In addition, Jim has participated in the W3C's XML Query Working Group since 1998 and is currently co-Chair of that Working Group. He is also Chair of the WG's Full-Text Task Force, co-Chair of the Update Language Task Force, and co-editor of two XQuery-related specifications. He is the author of several SQL books.

Stephen Buxton is Director of Product Management at Mark Logic Corporation. Stephen is a member of the W3C XQuery Working Group and a founder/member of the XQuery Full-Text Task Force. Stephen has written a number of papers and articles on XQuery and SQL/XML, and is an editor of several W3C XQuery Full-Text specs. Before joining Mark Logic, Stephen was Director of Product Management for Text and XML at Oracle Corporation.

Table of Contents

1. XML 2. Querying 3. Querying XML 4. Metadata—An Overview 5. Structural Metadata 6. The XML Information Set (Infoset) and Beyond7. Managing XML: Transforming and Connecting8. Storing: XML and Databases 9. XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0 10. Introduction to XQuery 1.0 11. XQuery 1.0 Definition 12. XQueryX 13. What’s Missing? 14. XQuery APIs 15. SQL/XML 16. XML-Derived Markup Languages 17. Internationalization: Putting the “W” 18. Finding Stuff

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One-stop shopping: what software developers and architects need to know to master XML querying and retrieval.