XQuery: Search Across a Variety of XML Data (Softcover)

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From the back cover: "Now that the XQuery 1.0 standards have arrived, you finally have a tool that will make it much easier to search, extract, and manipulate information from XML content stored in databases. This in-depth tutorial not only walks you through the XQuery specifications, it also teaches you how to program with this widely anticipated query language.

"XQuery is for query writers who have some knowledge of XML basics, but not necessarily advanced knowledge of XML-related technologies. It can be used both as a tutorial, by reading cover to cover, and as a reference, by using the comprehensive index and appendixes. Either way, you will gain the background knowledge in namespaces, schemas, built-in types, and regular expressions that is relevant to writing XML queries. This book provides:



"You will also learn about XQuery's support for filtering, sorting, and grouping data, as well as how to use FLWOR expressions, XPath, and XQuery tools for extracting and combining information. With this book, you will discover how to apply all of these tools to a wide variety of data sources, and how to recombine information from multiple sources into a single final output result."

Chapters

1. Introduction to XQuery
2. XQuery Foundations
3. Expressions: XQuery Building Blocks
4. Navigating Input Documents Using Paths
5. Adding Elements and Attributes to Results
6. Selecting and Joining Using FLWORs
7. Sorting and Grouping
8. Functions
9. Advanced Queries
10. Namespaces and XQuery
11. A Closer Look at Types
12. Queries, Prologs, and Modules
13. Using Schemas with XQuery
14. Static Typing
15. Principles of Query Design
16. Working with Numbers
17. Working with Strings
18. Regular Expressions
19. Working with Dates, Times and Duration
20. Working with Qualified Names, URIs, and IDs
21. Working with Other XML Components
22. Additional XQuery-Related Standards
23. Implementation-Specific Features
24. XQuery for SQL Users
25. XQuery for XSLT Users

Appendices

1. Built-In Function Reference
2. Built-In Types
3. Error Summary