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XQuery Kick Start
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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.
About the Authors
James McGovern is currently employed as an Enterprise Architect for Hartford
Financial Services. He currently writes the "Ask Doctor Java" column for Java
Developers Journal. He also working on an upcoming book titled Enterprise Architect.
He has sixteen years of experience in Information Technology. He is member of
the Java Community Process and currently working on Performance Metric Instrumentation
(JSR 138) and Web Services Security Assertions (JSR 155) specifications. He
holds industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Sun.
Kurt Cagle was a founding writer and frequent contributor for
Fawcette's XML and Web Services Magazine, and has spoken on XSLT, SVG, and XSL-FO
issues at more than a dozen conferences in the last five years. Kurt wrote his
first book on XML in 1998, was one of the first authors to concentrate on the
XSLT 1.0 specification for the Microsoft environment in Sybex's XML Developer's
Handbook, and was a contributing author to the best selling Beginning XML for
Wrox Press, among thirteen other books. Most recently, he wrote SVG Programming
for Apress. He lives in Kirkland, Washington with his wife and two daughters,
and writes novels when he isn't writing computer books.
Per Bothner has a computer science degree from Oslo, Norway
and a Ph.D. from Stanford (1988). After graduating, Per worked for Digital and
the University of Wisconsin before joining Cygnus in 1991. At Cygnus, he worked
on program development tools, including library, compiler and debugger implementation
of C++, and Chill. He was the technical leader of Cygnus's Java group from its
formation, as well as GCJ (the "GNU Compiler for the Java platform," a Java
ahead-of-time compiler based on the GCC suite and runtime environment). GCJ
is based on his ideas and includes much of his code. Per is a founding member
of the GCC Steering Committee. Per implemented the original STDIO implementation
used in Linux, the Emacs terminal emulator term, the original C Preprocessor
library, has fixed bugs in XTERM and bash, and has worked on many GNU and other
widely used programs. Per also developed Kawa, which compiles Scheme functions
on the fly into Java classes. The Kawa framework is also being used to implement
other languages, including JEmacs (a Java re-implementation of the Emacs text
editor, including support for the Emacs Lisp extension Language) and XQuery.
James Linn is a coauthor of the book Practical Guide to Enterprise
Architecture (Prentice Hall) and has seven years of experience in software development.
He has worked with Java, C++, and MFC. He has a masters degree in biochemistry
from the University of CaliforniamdRiverside, and a masters degree in software
engineering from Fairfield University. He is a consultant with Hartford Technology
Services Company.
Vaidyanathan Nagarajan is the coauthor of two recent books
on Java Technology: Professional EJB (Wrox), and J2EE Bible (Wiley). He has
more than six years of experience in information technology. Prior to joining
The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. as an enterprise developer, he worked
as a consultant to Netscape Professional Services. He holds an MBA from a leading
New England business school. He already has a masters degree in mathematics
and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology. His main interests
include programming in Java and robotics.
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