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

Howard Katz, Addison-Wesley Professional

ISBN:0321180607, Edition: , 2003-09-01

Price: $54.99

• Main Page
• Table of content
• Copyright
• Preface
  • This Book
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • Organization and Roadmap
  • Software
  • Cover Photograph
  • Ongoing
• Contributors
  • Don Chamberlin
  • Denise Draper
  • Mary Fernández
  • Howard Katz
  • Michael Kay
  • Jonathan Robie
  • Michael Rys
  • Jérôme Simeon
  • Jim Tivy
  • Philip Wadler
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Basics
  • Chapter 1. XQuery: A Guided Tour
    • Sample Data: A Bibliography
    • Data Model
    • Literals and Comments
    • Input Functions
    • Locating Nodes: Path Expressions
    • Creating Nodes: Element, Attribute, and Document Constructors
    • Combining and Restructuring Nodes
    • Operators
    • Built-in Functions
    • User-Defined Functions
    • Variable Definitions
    • Library Modules
    • External Functions and Variables
    • Types in XQuery
    • Summary
• Part II: Background
  • Chapter 2. Influences on the Design of XQuery
    • The Need for an XML Query Language
    • Basic Principles
    • The Query Data Model
    • Related Languages and Standards
    • Watershed Issues
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 3. XQuery, XPath, and XSLT
    • XSLT: A Quick Introduction
    • XPath 1.0
    • Why Was a New Query Language Needed?
    • Convergence: XPath 2.0
    • XSLT and XQuery Compared
    • Optimization Techniques
    • Conclusion
• Part III: Formal Underpinnings
  • Chapter 4. Static Typing in XQuery
    • The Benefits of Static Typing
    • An XQuery Programming Scenario
    • Getting Started with Types
    • Literals and Operators
    • Variables
    • Functions
    • Conditionals
    • Path Expressions
    • Predicates
    • FLWOR Expressions
    • Element Construction
    • Validation Context
    • Validation Mode
    • A Final Example: Grouping
    • Conclusions
  • Chapter 5. Introduction to the Formal Semantics
    • The Benefits of a Formal Semantics
    • Getting Started with the Formal Semantics
    • Learning More about XQuery
    • The Forest through the Trees
• Part IV: Databases
  • Chapter 6. Mapping between XML and Relational Data
    • Framing the Problem
    • LOB or Compose?
    • Composition Techniques: Common Concepts
    • Composition Techniques: Examples
    • Shredding
    • Implementation Concepts
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. Integrating XQuery and Relational Database Systems
    • Getting Started
    • Relational Storage of XML: The XML Type
    • Integrating XQuery and SQL: Querying XML Datatypes
    • Physical Mappings of XQuery
    • Top-Level XQuery
    • Conclusion and Issues
  • Chapter 8. A Native XML DBMS
    • What Is XML Data?
    • Interfaces to a Native XML Database
    • Full-Text Search in a Native XML Database
    • Sample Applications
    • Conclusion
• References
• Glossary