Querying XML
1st Edition
XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context
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Table of Contents
XML
1 Introduction
2 Adding Markup to Data
3 XML-Based Markup Languages
4 XML Data
5 Some Other Ways to Represent Data
6 Chapter Summary
Querying
1 Introduction
2 Querying Traditional Data
3 Querying Non-Traditional Data
4 Chapter Summary
Querying XML
1 Introduction
2 Navigating An XML Document
3 What Do You Know About Your Data?
4 Some Ways to Query XML Today
5 Summary
Metadata—An Overview
1 Introduction
2 Structural Metadata
3 Semantic Metadata
4 Catalog Metadata
5 Integration Metadata
6 Chapter Summary
Structural Metadata
1 Introduction
2 DTDs
3 XML Schema
4 Other schema languages for XML
5 Deriving an implied schema from a DTD
6 Chapter Summary
The XML Information Set (Infoset) and Beyond
1 Introduction
2 What is the Infoset?
3 The Infoset Information Items and Their Properties
4 The Infoset vs. The Document
5 The XPath 1.0 Data Model
6 The PSVI (Post-Schema-Validation Infoset)
7 The Document Object Model (DOM) – an API
8 Introducing the XQuery Data Model
9 A Note Regarding Data Model Terminology
10 Summary and further reading
Managing XML: Transforming and Connecting
1 Introduction
2 Transforming, Formatting, and Displaying XML
3 The Relationships Between XML Documents
4 Relationship Constraints: Enforcing Consistency
5 Chapter Summary
Storing: XML and Databases
1 Introduction
2 The Need for Persistence
3 SQL/XML’s XML Type
4 Accessing Persistent XML Data
5 XML On The Fly: Non-Persistent XML Data
6 Chapter Summary
XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0
1 Introduction
2 XPath 1.0
3 XPath 2.0 Components
4 XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0
5 Chapter Summary
Introduction to XQuery 1.0
1 Introduction
2 A Brief History
3 Requirements
4 Use Cases
5 The XQuery 1.0 Suite of Specifications
6 The Data Model
7 The XQuery Type System
8 XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics and Static Typing
9 Functions & Operators
10 XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 Serialization
11 Chapter Summary
XQuery 1.0 Definition
1 Introduction
2 Overview of XQuery
3 The XQuery Grammar
4 XQuery Expressions
5 FLWOR Expressions
6 Error Handling
7 Modules and Query Prologs
8 A Longer Example With Data
9 XQuery for SQL Programmers
10 Chapter Summary
XQueryX
1 Introduction
2 How far to go?
3 The XQueryX Specification
4 XQueryX By Example
5 Querying XQueryX
6 Summary
What’s Missing?
1 Introduction
2 Full-Text
3 Update
4 Chapter Summary
XQuery APIs
1 Introduction
2 Alphabet-soup Review
3 XQJ – XQuery for Java
4 SQL/XML
5 Looking Ahead
SQL/XML
1 Introduction
2 SQL/XML Publishing Functions
3 XML Data Type
4 XQuery Functions
5 Managing XML in the Database
6 Talking the Same Language – Mappings
7 Chapter Summary
XML-Derived Markup Languages
1 Introduction
2 Markup Languages
3 Discovery on the World Wide Web
4 Customized Query Languages
5 Chapter Summary
Internationalization: Putting the “W” in “WWW”
1 Introduction
2 What is Internationalization?
3 Internationalization and The World Wide Web
5 Chapter Summary
Finding Stuff
1 Introduction
2 Finding Structured Data – Databases
3 Finding Stuff On The Web – Web Search
4 Finding Stuff At Work – Enterprise Search
5 Finding Other People’s Stuff – Federated Search
6 Finding Services – WSDL, UDDI, WSIL, RDDL
7 Finding Stuff In A More Natural Way
8 Putting It All Together – The Semantic Web
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.
Key Features
- Presents the concepts clearly, and demonstrates them with illustrations and examples; offers a thorough mastery of the subject area in a single book.
- Provides comprehensive coverage of XML query languages, and the concepts needed to understand them completely (such as the XQuery Data Model).
- Shows how to query XML documents and data using: XPath (the XML Path Language); XQuery, soon to be the new W3C Recommendation for querying XML; XQuery's companion XQueryX; and SQL, featuring the SQL/XML
- Includes an extensive set of XQuery, XPath, SQL, Java, and other examples, with links to downloadable code and data samples.
Readership
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.
Details
- No. of pages:
- 848
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- © Morgan Kaufmann 2006
- Published:
- 6th March 2006
- Imprint:
- Morgan Kaufmann
- Paperback ISBN:
- 9781558607118
- eBook ISBN:
- 9780080540160
Ratings and Reviews
About the Authors
Jim Melton
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.
Affiliations and Expertise
Oracle Corporation, Sandy, Utah.
Stephen Buxton
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.
Affiliations and Expertise
Mark Logic Corporation, San Mateo, California
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