XQuery Kick Start delivers a concise introduction to the XQuery standard, and useful implementation advice for developers needing to put it into practice. The book starts by explaining the role of XQuery in the XML family of specifications, and its relationship with XPath. The authors then explain the specification in detail, describing the semantics and data model, before moving to examples using XQuery to manipulate XML databases and document storage systems. Later chapters discuss Java implementations of XQuery and development tools that facilitate the development of Web sites with XQuery. This book is up to date with the latest XQuery specifications, and includes coverage of new features for extending the XQuery language.
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"This book fills an important need for practical knowledge of XQuery. In addition to covering language basics, it addresses the variety of XQuery implementations currently available and gives us a glimpse at the road ahead. Practical examples, including several higher-level usage scenarios, play an important role in the development of this material. If you’re considering a project with XQuery, do yourself a favor and read this book." —Ed Peters, Software Architect, webMethods
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XQuery Kick Start delivers a concise introduction to the XQuery standard, and useful implementation advice for developers needing to put it into practice. The book starts by explaining the role of XQuery in the XML family of specifications, and its relationship with XPath. The authors then explain the specification in detail, describing the semantics and data model, before moving to examples using XQuery to manipulate XML databases and document storage systems. Later chapters discuss Java implementations of XQuery and development tools that facilitate the development of Web sites with XQuery. This book is up to date with the latest XQuery specifications, and includes coverage of new features for extending the XQuery language.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly organized, random topics with little meat,
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I don't think I've read a computer book as poorly organized as this one. The basic premise seems to be present some random aspects of XQuery or related topics in a chapter and have no flow through the book.There is a lot of good material in the book but try to find it - it's more or less impossible because the index is abysmal. There's no real introduction to how to use XQuery - instead we start off with XSLT. That may be OK (they are related) but it seemed a bit strange to me. Another problem with the book is that some of it is out of date. The XQuery specification is a work in progress but the book was written after (and refers to) the final draft - but a lot of the examples are not compliant with that final draft. The best thing that I can say about this book is that it forced me to research issues more deeply and therefore find out what I needed to know. I wouldn't buy this book - try to borrow it and see if it meets your needs.
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Below average,
By Stanley Siu (Jersey city, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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Totally agree with previous post titled 'Poorly organized, random topics with little meat'.
The book has a amateurish feel, full of topics that are not coherent, basically just a few lines here and there to fill up the page. Look for O'Reilly XQuery by Priscilla Walmsley, a much better book.
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Essential XQuery,
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This book is about best practices, patterns and anti-patterns, and about how to use XML and XQuery correctly and efficiently. It will be useful to a professional with any level of experience. It may be used as a tutorial and read from the cover to cover, or one can enjoy reading selected items, depending on the experience and taste. The book's very detailed index makes it an excellent reference on the subject as well.
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return concat, namespace nodes, xml document, following code snippet shows, most recent campaign, type annotation, atomic values, comment nodes, text node, xpath expression, write lock, simple data types, declarative language, case element, jar file, current sequence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Sun Microsystems by Vault Reports on page 7, page 241, and Back Matter
- Design Patterns by Erich Gamma in Front Matter, and page 195
- Beginning XML (Programmer to Programmer) by David Hunter in Front Matter
- Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl on page 14
- Struts Kick Start by James Turner in Back Matter
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- Dictionary of XML Technologies and the Semantic Web (Springer Professional Computing) by Vladimir Geroimenko in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 (J2EE 1.4) Bible by James McGovern in Back Matter
- Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures: Concepts, Challenges, Recommendations (The Enterprise Series) by James McGovern in Back Matter
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