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XQuery from the Experts.









XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML
Query Language by Howard Katz
Editor, Don Chamberlin, Denise Draper, Mary Fernandez, Michael
Kay, Jonathan Robie, Michael Rys, Jerome Simeon, Jim Tivy,
Philip Wadler ISBN:
0-321-18060-7, 512 Pages,
August 2003

XQuery answers the growing need for a
functi-onal XML search and
transformation standard. Backed by the full weight of the
World Wide Web Consortium (
W3C), XQuery is being
extremely well received by the IT
community worldwide. The first major
XML language that takes advantage of the
benefits of strong typing provided by XML
Schema, XQuery has the
versatility to manipulate both XML and
non-XML data and provides a valuable
connection between the world of XML and
relational databases.
In
XQuery from the
Experts, select members of the
W3C's XML Query working group come together
to discuss every facet of XQuery. From
Jonathan Robie's introductory "
XQuery: A Guided Tour" to
Mary Fernandez, Jerome
Simeon, and Philip Wadler's
"Introduction to the Formal
Seman-tics," XQuery is revealed
in a way that both novice programmers and industry experts can
appreciate.
Edited by
long-time XML expert and programmer
Howard Katz, coverage ranges from
strictly technical chapters to comparative essays such as
Michael Kay's "XQuery,
XPath, and XSLT," which explores the common ancestry of
all three languages, and Don
Chamberlin's "Influences on the Design
of XQuery," which details the process behind
XQuery's design.



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