XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context To order this title, and for more information, click here
By Jim Melton, Oracle Corporation, Sandy, Utah. Stephen Buxton, Mark Logic Corporation, San Mateo, California
Description 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.
Audience
Software engineers designing applications that use XML to access documents and data presented in XML form; architects of software systems
that use XML, who need to know how search and retrieval issues are to be handled; and others who need to understand the relationships
between XML markup and storage and future retrieval of documents based on the semantics of the information they contain.
Contents 1. XML
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Adding Markup to Data
1.3 XML-Based Markup Languages
1.4 XML Data
1.5 Some Other Ways to Represent Data
1.6 Chapter Summary
2. Querying
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Querying Traditional Data
2.3 Querying Non-Traditional Data
2.4 Chapter Summary
3. Querying XML
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Navigating An XML Document
3.3 What Do You Know About Your Data?
3.4 Some Ways to Query XML
Today
3.5 Summary
4. Metadata?An Overview
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Structural Metadata
4.3 Semantic Metadata
4.4 Catalog Metadata
4.5 Integration Metadata
4.6 Chapter Summary
5. Structural Metadata
5.1 Introduction
5.2 DTDs
5.3 XML Schema
5.4 Other schema
languages for XML
5.5 Deriving an implied schema from a DTD
5.6 Chapter Summary
6. The XML Information Set (Infoset) and Beyond
6.1 Introduction
6.2 What is the Infoset?
6.3 The Infoset Information Items and Their Properties
6.4 The Infoset vs. The Document
6.5 The XPath 1.0 Data Model
6.6 The PSVI (Post-Schema-Validation Infoset)
6.7 The Document Object Model (DOM) – an API
6.8 Introducing
the XQuery Data Model
6.9 A Note Regarding Data Model Terminology
6.10 Summary and further reading
7. Managing XML: Transforming
and Connecting
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Transforming, Formatting, and Displaying XML
7.3 The Relationships Between XML Documents
7.4
Relationship Constraints: Enforcing Consistency
7.5 Chapter Summary
8. Storing: XML and Databases
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Need
for Persistence
8.3 SQL/XML?s XML Type
8.4 Accessing Persistent XML Data
8.5 XML On The Fly: Non-Persistent XML Data
8.6 Chapter
Summary
9. XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0
9.1 Introduction
9.2 XPath 1.0
9.3 XPath 2.0 Components
9.4 XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0
9.5 Chapter
Summary
10. Introduction to XQuery 1.0
10.1 Introduction
10.2 A Brief History
10.3 Requirements
10.4 Use Cases
10.5 The XQuery
1.0 Suite of Specifications
10.6 The Data Model
10.7 The XQuery Type System
10.8 XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics and Static Typing
10.9
Functions & Operators
10.10 XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 Serialization
10.11 Chapter Summary
11. XQuery 1.0 Definition
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Overview of XQuery
11.3 The XQuery Grammar
11.4 XQuery Expressions
11.5 FLWOR Expressions
11.6 Error Handling
11.7 Modules
and Query Prologs
11.8 A Longer Example With Data
11.9 XQuery for SQL Programmers
11.10 Chapter Summary
12. XQueryX
12.1 Introduction
12.2 How far to go?
12.3 The XQueryX Specification
12.4 XQueryX By Example
12.5 Querying XQueryX
12.6 Summary
13. What?s Missing?
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Full-Text
13.3 Update
13.4 Chapter Summary
14. XQuery APIs
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Alphabet-soup Review
14.3 XQJ – XQuery for Java
14.4 SQL/XML
14.5 Looking Ahead
15. SQL/XML
15.1 Introduction
15.2 SQL/XML Publishing Functions
15.3
XML Data Type
15.4 XQuery Functions
15.5 Managing XML in the Database
15.6 Talking the Same Language – Mappings
15.7 Chapter Summary
16. XML-Derived Markup Languages
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Markup Languages
16.3 Discovery on the World Wide Web
16.4 Customized Query
Languages
16.5 Chapter Summary
17. Internationalization: Putting the ?W? in ?WWW?
17.1 Introduction
17.2 What is Internationalization?
17.3 Internationalization and The World Wide Web
17.5 Chapter Summary
18. Finding Stuff
18.1 Introduction
18.2 Finding Structured
Data – Databases
18.3 Finding Stuff On The Web – Web Search
18.4 Finding Stuff At Work – Enterprise Search
18.5 Finding Other People?s
Stuff – Federated Search
18.6 Finding Services – WSDL, UDDI, WSIL, RDDL
18.7 Finding Stuff In A More Natural Way
18.8 Putting It All
Together – The Semantic Web
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