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

Table of Contents

1. XML 1.1 Introduction 1.2 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 Update 13.4 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