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Fellow XML and XSLT enthusiasts, The new book "Building Oracle XML Applications" from O'Reilly is now available (ISBN: 1565926919). A complete overview of its contents is at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp as well as a complete sample chapter, "Transforming XML Using XSLT". The book assumes you know a little SQL and either Java or PL/SQL, but does not assume you know anything about XML, XSLT, or XPath and includes solid, pragmatic introductions. Besides the core introduction to XSLT in Chapter 7 and the "XSLT Beyond the Basics" in Chapter 9, the book abounds with examples of using XSLT and database-driven XML content in 10 of the 17 chapters. The book ships with a free developer's copy of the Oracle JDeveloper 3.1 Java IDE (for Win NT/2000) for more easily working through all of the examples. The book's examples and explanations teach you... -> What the XML, XSLT, and XPath standards are for, how they relate, and how to apply them to Oracle database-driven XML for the Web. -> How to produce XML of any desired structure from database data and how to store XML of any structure into normalized database tables for further processing. -> How to use Oracle's built-in "XSQL Pages" server templates to combine SQL, XML, and XSLT to publish information in any XML, HTML, or Text-based format for offline or Web delivery. -> How to use Java and PL/SQL to programmatically create, transform, search, process, enqueue, dequeue, post, and retrieve XML, both from inside and outside the database by exploiting the Oracle XDK components. -> How to search over millions of XML documents or document fragments stored in the database using Oracle's "interMedia" XML-savvy document searching facilities Advanced topics include: -> Using XSLT keys like database functional indexes to improve XSLT transformation performance. -> Using XSLT in combination with JTidy to dynamically aggregate data from existing HTML-based web services -> Building an XMLLoader utility to insert XML files of arbitrary size into any number of database tables. -> Building stylesheets that create stylesheets, and using stylesheets to generate colorful SVG charts from database data. -> Writing and debugging XSLT extension functions and XSQL action handlers in Java. -> Building a database-driven portal site with per-user customization and building a completely XSLT-driven online discussion forum application. ______________________________________________________________ Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager BC4J & XSQL Servlet Development Teams, Oracle Rep to XSL WG Author "Building Oracle XML Applications", O'Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp/
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