Title: Professional XML Databases Author(s): Kevin Williams, Michael Brundage et al. Pages: 840 Publisher: Wrox Press Publication date: 2000 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 1861003587 ISBN-13: Description: In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data - whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing - you need to have command of four key skills: understanding how to structure, process, access, and store your data.
By introducing guidelines for how to model your XML documents in relational databases and how to model relational database information as XML, we will establish structures that enable quick and efficient access, and make our data more flexible. We then look at the developer's XML toolbox, discussing associated technologies and strategies that will help us in describing, processing, and manipulating data. We also discuss common techniques for data access, data warehousing, transmission, and marshalling and presentation, giving working examples in every chapter.
Whether you are using XML for storage, as an interchange format, or for display, this book looks at some of the key issues you should be aware of when structuring, processing, accessing, and storing your documents.
Topics covered:
- Hints for effective XML document design (including XML for text and XML for databases)
- Designing XML for existing database tables
- Creating database tables from XML
- Standards guidelines for XML used within (and between) organizations
- XML Schemas
- The XML W3C Document Object Model (DOM)
- Using the Simple API for XML (SAX)
- XSLT
- XPath used with style sheets and templates
- Resource linking with XLink
- Overview of additional emerging XML-based standards (including XBase, XInclude, XHTML, and XForms)
- The XML Query language
- Converting between flat file databases and XML
- Introduction to Microsoft ADO, ADO+ (ADO.NET), and XML
- Storing and retrieving XML in SQL Server 2000 (including OPENXML and XML views)
- Tutorial for JDBC programming
- JDBC used with XML
- Data warehousing
- Data transmission with XML
- The Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
- Marshalling and presentation with XML (including a WML example for generating wireless content)
- Sample case studies for SQL Server 2000 showing XML techniques
- DB Prism (an open-source dynamic XML framework)
- XML and database primers
- References for XML datatypes and SAX
Title: Professional XML Databases