
Querying XML
XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in context
- 1st Edition - March 6, 2006
 - Latest edition
 - Authors: Jim Melton, Stephen Buxton
 - Language: English
 
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

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.
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
 - Latest edition
 - Published: March 6, 2006
 - Language: English
 
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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