XQuery Kick Start

by McGovern, James; Bothner, Per; Cagle, Kurt; Linn, James; Nagarajan, Vaidyanathan; Nagarajan, Vaidyanathan

• ISBN13: 9780672324796
• ISBN10: 0672324792
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-01
• Publisher: Sams

Summary

XQuery Kick Startdelivers a concise introduction to the XQuery standard, and useful implementation advice for developers needing to put it into practice. The book starts by explaining the role of XQuery in the XML family of specifications, and its relationship with XPath. The authors then explain the specification in detail, describing the semantics and data model, before moving to examples using XQuery to manipulate XML databases and document storage systems. Later chapters discuss Java implementations of XQuery and development tools that facilitate the development of Web sites with XQuery. This book is up to date with the latest XQuery specifications, and includes coverage of new features for extending the XQuery language.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
XML Concepts	p. 5
XML: The Foundation of XQuery	p. 7
Understanding the XPath 2.0 Specification	p. 25
The XQuery Language	p. 61
XQuery Language Expressions	p. 63
Extensions and Modular XQuery	p. 101
XQuery Applications: Presentations, Graphics, and Syndication Feeds	p. 119
Working with the XPath 2.0 Data Model	p. 157
Understanding XQuery Semantics	p. 169
XQuery and Databases	p. 189
Advanced XQuery Topics	p. 217
Using XQuery	p. 251
Using Microsoft XQuery Services	p. 253
Generating XML and HTML Using XQuery	p. 261
Working with Java and XQuery	p. 289
Appendixes	p. 311
XML Fundamentals	p. 313
B: Other Sources of Information	p. 331
Index	p. 335
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