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Re: ANN: Oracle XQuery Prototype & Production SQLX+XMLType Sup

• To: "Steve Muench" <Steve.Muench@o...>, "Xml-Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: ANN: Oracle XQuery Prototype & Production SQLX+XMLType Support
• From: "Steve Muench" <Steve.Muench@o...>
• Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 13:35:10 +0200
• References: <002f01c20342$09108e40$7e921690@smuenchlap>

I inadvertently omitted two (apparently important!)
parameters off the end of the download URL. Try
this URL for download instead:

http://www.oracle.com/start/dbrev2/intro.htm?src=1332491&Act=4

Thanks.
__________________________________________________________
Steve Muench - Developer, Product Mgr, Evangelist, Author
Simplify J2EE and EJB Development with BC4J
http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/htdocs/j2ee_bc4j.html
Building Oracle XML Apps, www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Muench" <Steve.Muench@o...>
To: "Xml-Dev" <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 6:42 PM
Subject:  ANN: Oracle XQuery Prototype & Production SQLX+XMLType Support


| Two announcements of interest to folks working with XML and databases...
| 
| (1) In March 2002, Oracle posted an XQuery prototype at:
| 
|     http://otn.oracle.com/sample_code/tech/xml/xmldb/content.html
| 
|     with support focusing on the "R" (Relational Data) and the "XMP"
|     (Experiences and Exemplars) XQuery use cases, and featuring an
|     experimental JDBC-style Java API for XQuery as well as a sql()
|     function for using XQuery over SQL query results.  Our goal is
|     ultimately to provide both a SQL-flavored and an XQuery-based
|     query *syntax* for XML content in Oracle leveraging the same
|     underlying database engine via appropriate query rewriting. That
|     common underlying engine is now production. See (#2).
| 
| (2) This week -- over two years in the making -- Oracle announced
|     the release of Oracle9i Release 2, with major new native database
|     support for XML, and made the software available for download for
|     eight different platforms. Key new features include:
|  
|     -> Single database engine supporting all existing datatypes
|        (relational, SQL99 objects, data warehousing, geospatial,
|        time-series, multimedia, etc.) integrated with a *new* native
|        XMLType...all sharing a common SQL query language (extended for
|        XML), common maintenance, transactions, backup/recovery, etc.
| 
|     -> Support for forthcoming ISO SQLX standard extensions to SQL for
|        constructing XML in SQL including the operators XMLElement(),
|        XMLAttributes(), XMLForest(), XMLAgg(), and XMLConcat()
| 
|     -> Full W3C XML Schema 1.0, XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0, and DOM Core
|        support for native XMLType datatype implemented deep inside the
|        engine and exposed to SQL, PL/SQL and Java API's. Users can
|        augment built-in processing of XML documents with stored
|        procedures, functions, and triggers as for any other types and
|        tables.
| 
|     -> Automatic Object/Relational Storage for XML documents based on
|        XML Schema, with optional fine-tuning of the mapping via Schema
|        Annotations (already supported in XML Spy 4.3 tool). Includes
|        optional support for full DOM fidelity and mixed content
|        storage.
| 
|     -> SQL extensions for XPath-based extract(), extractValue(),
|        existsNode(), and updateXML() operators for manipulating
|        documents, including the ability to rewrite a subset of XPath
|        expressions to use underlying object/relational indices and
|        full-text indices for maximum performance.
| 
|     -> Plus a lot more.
| 
| A more complete overview of what's new for XML functionality is at:
| 
|   http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/appdev.920/a96620/whatsnew.htm
| 
| Full documentation is online and searchable in HTML and PDF formats at:
| 
|   http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/oracle9i/doc_library/release2/index.htm
| 
| Technical overviews and whitepapers are available at:
| 
|   http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xmldb/content.html
| 
| You can download a developer's licensed version for experimentation on
| any/all of the following eight platforms:
| 
|    (*) WindowsNT/2000/XP
|    (*) Sun SPARC Solaris (32-bit)
|    (*) Sun SPARC Solaris (64-bit)
|    (*) Linux
|    (*) AIX (64-bit)
|    (*) AIX5L
|    (*) HP-UX
|    (*) Compaq Tru64
| 
| At http://www.oracle.com/start/dbrev2/intro.htm
| 
| Any technical questions can be posted in our "XML Discussion Forum" at
| http://www.oracle.com/forums
| 
| It's been hard not being able to talk about all of this new
| support for more than two years. The cat is finally out of the bag! :-)
| 
| Enjoy.
| 
| __________________________________________________________
| Steve Muench - Developer, Product Mgr, Evangelist, Author
| Simplify J2EE and EJB Development with BC4J
| http://otn.oracle.com/products/jdev/htdocs/j2ee_bc4j.html
| Building Oracle XML Apps, www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp
| 
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