ORACLE DATABASE 11G BUILDING ORACLE XML DB APPLICATIONS

Master the XML Programming Features in Oracle Database 11g

Develop, debug, and administer data-backed XML applications using the expert instruction and best practices in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Database 11g: Building Oracle XML DB Applications discusses the latest development tools, technologies, and components. Find out how to set up Oracle XML Database (Oracle XML DB), build XML applications in Oracle JDeveloper 11g, work with XSLT stylesheets, and incorporate full-text search. Troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security are also covered in this comprehensive resource.

• Create, store, and query XML types using Oracle XML DB
• Load XML documents into relational tables and define SQL views
• Parse and validate schema with Oracle XDK for Java and PL/SQL packages
• Merge documents, generate reports, and transform data using XSLT
• Construct applications from Oracle XML DB Web services
• Use Oracle JDeveloper 11g to design and deploy XML applications
• Integrate Oracle Text and Oracle Secure Enterprise Search features
• Streamline the development process using Oracle Application Express

Jinyu Wang was on the product management team and managed Oracle XML DB and Oracle XDK for five years. She has extensive experience in Oracle XML solutions and was the coauthor of Oracle Database 10g: XML and SQL. Jinyu has been using XML for more than 10 years and has produced many conference/journal papers on XML. She holds four U.S. patents in XML processing.

Part I: Basic Concepts and Technologies
Chapter 1: Introducing Oracle XML DB
Chapter 2: Native XML Storage: XML Type
Chapter 3: XML Database Repository
Chapter 4: Parsing XML
Chapter 5: Validating XML
Chapter 6: Navigating XML with XPath
Chapter 7: XML Transformations
Chapter 8: XML Query
Chapter 9: XML and Relational Tables
Chapter 10: Searching XML

Part II: Managing Oracle XML Database
Chapter 11. XML DB Installation
Chapter 12. XML DB Storage
Chapter 13. XML DB Backup and Recovery
Chapter 14. XML DB Security and Performance Tuning

Part III: Building XML Applications
Chapter 15. XML DB Web Service
Chapter 16. Using Oracle JDeveloper 11g
Chapter 17. Pulling It All Together

Appendix A. Installing Oracle Application Express in Oracle Database 11g
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