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XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language

May 4, 2010 by BPELforum

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“The individual perspectives on the concepts behind the XQuery language offered by XQuery from the Experts will be of great value to those who are seeking to understand the implications, opportunities, and challenges of XQuery as they design future information systems based on XML.” -Michael Champion, Advisory Research and Development Specialist, Software AG XQuery answers the growing need for a functional XML search and transformation standard. Backed by the full weight of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), XQuery is being extremely well received by the IT community worldwide. The first major XML language that takes advantage of the benefits of strong typing provided by XML Schema, XQuery has the versatility to manipulate both XML and non-XML data and provides a valuable connection between the world of XML and relational databases. In XQuery from the Experts, select members of the W3C’s XML Query working group come together to discuss every facet of XQuery.From Jonathan Robie’s introductory “XQuery: A Guided Tour” to Mary Mary Fernandez, Jerome Simeon, and Philip Wadler’s “Introduction to the Formal Semantics,” XQuery is revealed in a way that both novice programmers and industry experts can appreciate. Edited by long-time XML expert and programmer Howard Katz, coverage ranges from strictly technical chapters to comparative essays such as Michael Kay’s “XQuery, XPath, and XSLT,” which explores the common ancestry of all three languages, and Don Chamberlin’s “Influences on the Design of XQuery,” which details the process behind XQuery’s design. Key coverage includes: *Denise Draper on “Mapping Between XML and Relational Data” *Michael Rys exploring “Integrating XQuery and Relational Database Systems” *Jim Tivy’s analysis of “A Native XML DBMS” *Mary Mary Fernandez, Jerome Simeon, and Philip Wadler, presenting “Static Typing in XQuery” *Information presented in both a tutorial and a reference framework for use by XML professionals of any level For IT managers, professionals, programmers, or anyone involved with XML, XQuery from the Experts is an invaluable resource. 0321180607B07212003

XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language

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XPath Kick Start: Navigating XML with XPath 1.0 and 2.0

May 3, 2010 by BPELforum

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XPath is to XML as SQL is to databases: XML applications need XPath to locate specific data within an XML document for further processing with other XML applications such as XSLT, XQuery, XPointer, XLink and DOM level 3. With XPath, these applications offer developers a full toolkit for transforming, linking, and searching XML data. Developers need to understand XPath to fully exploit XML in their applications, and they have few resources beyond the W3C specification. XPath Kick Start will examine every aspect of XPath in detail, including its influence on and use with these other XML standards.

With each technique illustrated with real-world examples, the book starts with coverage of the essentials of XPath, including nodes, expressions, functions and operators. The second half of the book details XPath in practice – from manipulating XML data to transforming, linking and querying XML documents.

XPath Kick Start: Navigating XML with XPath 1.0 and 2.0

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Database and XML Technologies: 6th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2009, Lyon, France, August 24, 2009. Proceedings

May 1, 2010 by BPELforum

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2009, held in Lyon, France, in August 2009 in conjunction with the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2009.

The 8 revised full papers together with 7 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions. Covering all current aspects of core database technology for XML data management, XML and data integration, and development and deployment of XML applications, the papers are organized in topical sections on XML twig queries, query execution, xml document parsing and compression, XQuery and XML transaction management and schema design.

Database and XML Technologies: 6th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2009, Lyon, France, August 24, 2009. Proceedings

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

April 30, 2010 by BPELforum

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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.

* 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.

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

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The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML

April 29, 2010 by BPELforum

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The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML covers Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB XML, an open source embedded XML database. Berkeley DB XML runs on all major operating systems and has support for the most popular programming languages. The book includes tutorials and complete language references for C++, Java, Perl, Python, and PHP.

Berkeley DB XML has the potential to dramatically simplify the development of your application’s data tier. With native XML storage, flexible indexing, and the powerful XQuery query language (think SQL for XML), BDB XML provides everything you need for efficient XML management. Combined with Berkeley DB’s transactions, logging, and replication, BDB XML is a powerful document storage solution.

Author Danny Brian presents XML basics from the ground up for XML beginners, and covers database installation and configuration, the core concepts behind Berkeley DB XML, a look at application architecture, demonstrations of simple operations (i.e., text queries) to complex (i.e., set computations) using XQuery and FLWOR expressions, document indexing options, and a thorough look at the database APIs. You’ll learn tips and tricks that you can immediately apply to your own applications.

The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML

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