Querying XML
XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context
- 1st Edition - March 6, 2006
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- Authors: Jim Melton, Stephen Buxton
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 5 5 8 6 0 - 7 1 1 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 4 0 1 6 - 0
XML has become the lingua franca for representing business data, for exchanging information between business partners and applications, and for adding structure–and sometimes… Read more
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Request a sales quoteXML 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.
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.
1. XML 1.1 Introduction1.2 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 Update13.4 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
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 6, 2006
- Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
- No. of pages: 848
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781558607118
- eBook ISBN: 9780080540160
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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, USASB
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
Director of Product Management, Mark Logic Corporation, San Mateo, California, USARead Querying XML on ScienceDirect