Professional XML Databases

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.

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: XML Design for Data
• Chapter 2: XML Structures for Existing Databases
• Chapter 3: Database Structures for Existing XML
• Chapter 4: Standards Design
• Chapter 5: XML Schemas
• Chapter 6: DOM
• Chapter 7: SAX - The Simple API for XML
• Chapter 8: XSLT and XPath
• Chapter 9: Relational References with XLink
• Chapter 10: Other Technologies (XBase, XPointer, XInclude, XHTML, XForms)
• Chapter 11: The XML Query Language
• Chapter 12: Flat Files
• Chapter 13: ADO, ADO+, and XML
• Chapter 14: Storing and Retrieving XML in SQL Server 2000
• Chapter 15: XML Views in SQL Server 2000
• Chapter 16: JDBC
• Chapter 17: Data Warehousing, Archival, and Repositories
• Chapter 18: Data Transmission
• Chapter 19: Marshalling and Presentation
• Chapter 20: SQL Server 2000 XML Sample Applications
• Chapter 21: DB Prism: A Framework to Generate Dynamic XML from a Database
• Appendix A: XML Primer
• Appendix B: Relational Database Primer
• Appendix C: XML Schema Datatypes
• Appendix D: SAX 2.0: The Simple API for XML
• Appendix E: Setting Up a Virtual Directory for SQL Server 2000
• Appendix F: Support, Errata and P2P.Wrox.Com