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Re: ANN: XQuery: A Guided Tour

• To: <xml-dev@l...>,"Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Subject: Re: ANN: XQuery: A Guided Tour
• From: "Bob Foster" <bob@o...>
• Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:18:13 -0500
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From: "Jonathan Robie" <jonathan.robie@d...>
> With permission from Addison-Wesley, my company has posted my tutorial
> chapter from XQuery from the Experts [1]. This chapter is called XQuery: A
> Guided Tour, and can be found here:
>
> http://www.datadirect.com/news/whatsnew/xquerybook.asp

If I may presume to offer a reader recommendation based on the first three
chapters, this seems quite a good book (at least so far). I may be somewhat
biased, I enjoyed Michael Kay's chapter so much I am prepared to forgive the
rest of the book most anything, but I am quite looking forward to the formal
semantics and, oh yeah, all that database stuff. ;-}

Bob Foster

> Hope people find this helpful!
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] : A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language by Howard Katz, Don
Chamberlin,
> Denise Draper, Mary Fernandez, Michael Kay, Jonathan Robie, Michael Rys,
> Jerome Simeon, Jim Tivy, and Philip Wadler, (ISBN 0-321-18060-7),
copyright
> 2004.
>
>
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