This book is best used by students that are knowledgeable in database technology and are familiar with XML. "This is an excellent book that combines a practical and analytical look at the subject.

Efficient access to data, sharing data, extracting information from data, and making use of the information have become urgent needs for today's corporations.

With this book, veteran author Gavin Powell shows you how this confluence of two technologies can simplify your database work and provide a more standardized way to exchange data between multiple databases and web sites.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2003, held in Berlin, Germany in September 2003.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2005, held in Trondheim, Norway in August 2005 in conjunction with VLDB 2005 and in coordination with the Database and Programming ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2004, held in Toronto, Canada in August 2004 in association with VLDB 2004.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2007, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2007 in conjunction with the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2007.

This comprehensive guide focuses on utilizing XML technologies within Oracle's XML-enabled products; with emphasis on XML standards; their usage and best practices. --

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2009, held in Lyon, France, in August 2009 in conjunction with the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, VLDB 2009.