Wow! eBook - Blog » XML http://www.wowebook.me Great ebook, great site! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:55:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition http://www.wowebook.me/book/the-book-of-javascript-2nd-edition/ http://www.wowebook.me/book/the-book-of-javascript-2nd-edition/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:51:14 +0000 Wow! http://www.wowebook.me/?p=16944 The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition

Book Description

With , you can add interactivity, , and other tricks to your pages quickly. But this isn’t just a book of scripts for you to cut and paste into your , only to find out later that nothing works as you’d expected. Using real-world examples as the starting point, author thau! walks you through various scripts and explains how they produce the effects you want.

Because no discussion of today is complete without coverage of , this thoroughly updated second edition includes new chapters on , so you can get up to speed with this valuable method for creating truly dynamic pages. This second edition of the best-selling The Book of JavaScript also features revised appendices and new examples throughout to reflect today’s web environment. Inside, you’ll learn to:

  • Work with frames, forms, cookies, and alarms
  • Use events to react to a user’s actions
  • Perform image swaps and rollovers
  • Program your own functions to produce customized solutions
  • Store user preferences and build a shopping cart
  • Use Dynamic to turn web pages into multimedia applications

If you need to spruce up tired-looking pages, The Book of JavaScript, 2nd Edition will help take your site from bland to brilliant.

BONUS: Includes a complete reference to all JavaScript objects and functions, including examples, properties, methods, handlers, and browser compatibility!

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Welcome to JavaScript!
Chapter 2. Using Variables and Built-in Functions to Update Your Web Pages Automatically
Chapter 3. Giving the Browsers What They Want
Chapter 4. Working with Rollovers
Chapter 5. Opening and Manipulating
Chapter 6. Writing Your Own JavaScript Functions
Chapter 7. Providing and Receiving Information with Forms
Chapter 8. Keeping Track of Information with Arrays and Loops
Chapter 9. Timing Events
Chapter 10. Using Frames and Image Maps
Chapter 11. Validating Forms, Massaging Strings, and Working with Server-Side Programs
Chapter 12. Saving Visitor Information with Cookies
Chapter 13. Dynamic HTML
Chapter 14. Basics
Chapter 15. in JavaScript and Ajax
Chapter 16. Server-Side Ajax
Chapter 17. Putting It All Together
Chapter 18. Debugging JavaScript and Ajax

Appendix A. Answers to Assignments
Appendix B. Resources
Appendix . Reference to JavaScript Objects and Functions
Appendix D. Chapter 15′s Italian Translation Script and Chapter 17′s To Do List Application

Book Details

  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: No Starch Press; 2nd Edition (December 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1593271069
  • ISBN-13: 978-1593271060
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Book Description

Standards: Mastering 5, 3, and provides solutions to the most common problems, and gives you a deep understanding of standards and how they can be applied to improve your . You will learn how to create fully standards-compliant websites and provide search engine-optimized documents with faster download times, accurate rendering, correct appearance and layout, lower cost, approved accessibility, backward and forward compatibility, and easy maintenance and content updating. The book covers all major standards, focusing on syntax, grammar, recommended annotations, and other standardization concerns.

Web Standards: Mastering 5, 3, and is also a comprehensive guide to current and future standards for the World Wide Web. As a web developer, you’ll have seen problems with inconsistent appearance and behavior of the same site in different browsers. Web standards can and should be used to completely eliminate these problems. Web Standards: Mastering , , and XML describes how you can make the most of web standards, through technology discussions as well as practical sample code that you can use for your own sites and web applications. It also provides a quick guide to standard website creation for Web developers.

  • Learn techniques and best practices to achieve full standards compliance
  • Write valid markup, styles, and news feeds from scratch or standardize websites by redesign
  • Restrict markup to semantics and provide reliable layout

What you’ll learn

  • The importance and benefits of Web standards
  • How to write valid markup from scratch
  • The most up-to-date standards, rather than non-finalized specifications
  • How to provide meaningful semantics and machine-readable metadata
  • How to restrict markup to semantics
  • How to achieve full standard compliance reasonably

Who this book is for
Web Standards: Mastering , , and XML provides a complete reference of Web standardization resources for website developers.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction to Web Standards
  2. Internationalization
  3. Markup Languages: More Than HTML5
  4. Serving and Configuration for a Modern Website
  5. Style Sheets and CSS3
  6. and Web Applications
  7. Metadata and the Semantic Web
  8. Web Syndication
  9. Optimizing the Appearance of a CSS3 and HTML5 Website
  10. Accessibility
  11. Web Standards Tools
  12. Putting it All Together
  13. HTML5 and CSS3 Best Practices
  14. Markup Validation
  15. Most Common HTML5 and CSS3 Errors

Book Details

  • Paperback: 524 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (November 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1430240415
  • ISBN-13: 978-1430240419
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Book Description

The Start-to-Finish, Best-Practice Guide to Implementing and Using  

Darwin Information Typing Architecture () is today’s most powerful toolbox for constructing information. By implementing , organizations can gain more value from their technical documentation than ever before. Now, three pioneers offer the first complete roadmap for successful adoption, implementation, and usage.

Drawing on years of experience helping large organizations adopt DITA, the authors answer crucial questions the “official” DITA documents ignore, including: Where do you start? What should you know up front? What are the pitfalls in implementing DITA? How can you avoid those pitfalls?

The authors begin with topic-based writing, presenting proven best practices for developing effective topics and short descriptions. Next, they address content architecture, including how best to set up and implement DITA maps, linking strategies, metadata, conditional processing, and content reuse. Finally, they offer “in the trenches” solutions for ensuring quality implementations, including guidance on content conversion.

Coverage includes:

  • Knowing how and when to use each DITA element–and when not to
  • Writing “minimalist,” task-oriented information that quickly meets users’ needs
  • Creating effective task, concept, and reference topics for any product, technology, or service
  • Writing effective short descriptions that work well in all contexts
  • Structuring DITA maps to bind topics together and provide superior navigation
  • Using links to create information webs that improve retrievability and navigation
  • Gaining benefits from metadata without getting lost in complexity
  • Using conditional processing to eliminate redundancy and rework
  • Systematically promoting reuse to improve quality and reduce costs
  • Planning, resourcing, and executing effective content conversion
  • Improving quality by editing DITA content and markup

If you’re a writer, editor, information architect, manager, or consultant who evaluates, deploys, or uses DITA, this book will guide you all the way to success.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Press (August 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0132480522
  • ISBN-13: 978-0132480529
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Book Description

Is a new technology, or the same old stuff developers have been using for years? Both, actually. This book demonstrates not only how tried-and-true standards make possible, but how these older technologies allow you to give sites a decidedly modern 2.0 feel.

Ajax: explains how to use standards like , , , and XHTML, along with the XMLHttpRequest object, to build browser-based applications that function like desktop programs. You get a complete background on what goes into today’s sites and applications, and learn to leverage these tools along with Ajax for advanced browser searching, services, mashups, and more. You discover how to turn a browser and site into a true application, and why developing with Ajax is faster, easier and cheaper.

The book also explains:

  • How to connect server-side backend components to user interfaces in the browser
  • Loading and manipulating documents, and how to replace with
  • Manipulating the Document Object Model ()
  • Designing Ajax interfaces for usability, functionality, visualization, and accessibility
  • Site navigation layout, including issues with Ajax and the browser’s back button
  • Adding life to tables & lists, navigation boxes and
  • creation, interactive forms, and data validation
  • Search, and mash-ups
  • Applying Ajax to business communications, and creating Internet games without plug-ins
  • The advantages of modular coding, ways to optimize Ajax applications, and more

This book also provides references to XML and XSLT, popular Frameworks, Libraries, and Toolkits, and various Web Service APIs. By offering web developers a much broader set of tools and options, Ajax gives developers a new way to create content on the Web, while throwing off the constraints of the past. Ajax: describes the contents of this unique toolbox in exhaustive detail, and explains how to get the most out of it.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 980 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (January 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596528388
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596528386
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Book Description

The first guide to show you how to power your site using .More companies are turning to the power and simplicity of ’s content management system to build robust, customized sites. Written by leaders in the community, this invaluable guide takes you through every aspect of this open source tool. Code samples using XHTML, , , and # are integrated throughout the pages to illustrate key concepts that you can apply. As you work through the chapters, you’ll progress from building a basic site to a sophisticated one that meets the needs of your organization.

Umbraco User’s Guide:

  • Explains how to install Umbraco and walks you through its structure
  • Discusses how to create templates while building your understanding of layouts
  • Offers best practices for developing content, designing types, organizing templates, and using the rich text editor
  • Walks you through and controls
  • Helps you build sample applications and troubleshoot any issues that arise
  • Covers how to create your own classified ads site by combining document types, templates, styles, macros, and more

Nik Wahlberg is the founder of Scandia Consulting, a full-service consultancy specializing in custom application . He is a Level 2 Certified Umbraco Professional.

Paul Sterling is a member of the Umbraco Core Team and the creator of the Umbraco Store. He is also the founder of the Commerce for Umbraco open source project.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

From the Back Cover
The first guide to show you howto power your site using Umbraco

More companies are turning to the power and simplicity of Umbraco’s web content management system to build robust, customized sites. Written by leaders in the Umbraco community, this invaluable guide takes you through every aspect of this open source tool. Code samples using XHTML, , XSLT, and # are integrated throughout the pages to illustrate key concepts that you can apply. As you work through the chapters, you’ll progress from building a basic Umbraco site to a sophisticated one that meets the needs of your organization.

Umbraco User’s Guide:

  • Explains how to install Umbraco and walks you through its structure
  • Discusses how to create templates while building your understanding of layouts
  • Offers best practices for developing content, designing types, organizing templates, and using the rich text editor
  • Walks you through XSLT and controls
  • Helps you build sample applications and troubleshoot any issues that arise
  • Covers how to create your own classified ads site by combining document types, templates, styles, macros, and more

Book Details

  • Paperback: 360 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (April 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470560827
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470560822
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Book Description

Have you ever wondered how to get started writing your own schema? As you prepare to create your schema, you must consider a number of factors. This guide explains each of those factors in detail and recommends an approach for documenting your schema plan in an information model.

Your information model can not only be used as a planning mechanism to develop your schema but can also be used as a training resource and as a reference guide for those using the schema after it is developed. By putting a well-thought-out information model in place, you are bound to produce a schema that you can use indefinitely and build upon easily.

Table of Contents
Copyright
Introduction
Chapter 1. Conducting a User Study and Competitive Analysis
Chapter 2. Identifying Structure
Section 2-1. Annotating existing material reveals the structure.
Chapter 3. Creating a Reuse Strategy
Chapter 4. Developing an Information Model
Section 4.1. What Are the Benefits of an Information Model?
Section 4.2. What Does an Information Model Provide?
Chapter 5. Information Types
Section 5.1. What Kind of Information Do You Include to Describe Your Information Types?
Section 5.2. Example Information Type Definition
Chapter 6. Content Units (Semantic)
Section 6.1. Example Content Unit Definition
Chapter 7. Body Elements (Syntactic)
Section 7.1. Example Body Element Definition
Chapter 8. Inline Elements (Syntactic)
Section 8.1. Example Inline Element Definition
Chapter 9. Documents and Deliverables Structures
Section 9.1. Example document structure definition
Chapter 10. Metadata Attributes
Chapter 11. File Structure and Navigation
Chapter 12. Naming Conventions
Section 12.1. Filenaming Conventions
Section 12.2. Element Names
Section 12.3. Metadata Names and Values
Section 12.4. Unique IDs
Section 12.5. Titles
Chapter 13. Conducting a Small Pilot Project
Chapter 14. Putting It All Together
Chapter 15. References

Book Details

  • Paperback: 44 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (March 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596558732
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596558734
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Book Description

If you’re a developer working with , you know there’s a lot to know about , and the space is evolving almost moment by moment. But you don’t need to commit every syntax, , or transformation to memory; you only need to know where to find it. And if it’s a detail that has to do with or its companion standards, you’ll find it–clear, concise, useful, and well-organized–in the updated third edition of XML in a .

With XML in a beside your keyboard, you’ll be able to:

  • Quick-reference syntax rules and usage examples for the core XML technologies, including XML, DTDs, , , SAX, and
  • Develop an understanding of well-formed XML, DTDs, namespaces, Unicode, and W3 XML Schema
  • Gain a working knowledge of key technologies used for narrative XML documents such as pages, books, and articles technologies like XSLT, , Xlink, Xpointer, , and -FO
  • Build data-intensive XML applications
  • Understand the tools and APIs necessary to build data-intensive XML applications and process XML documents, including the event-based Simple for XML (SAX2) and the tree-oriented Document Object Model ()

This powerful new edition is the comprehensive XML reference. Serious users of XML will find coverage on just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of DTD and XML Schema creation, to XSLT transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. XML in a Nutshell also covers XML 1.1, as well as updates to SAX2 and DOM Level 3 coverage. If you need explanation of how a technology works, or just need to quickly find the precise syntax for a particular piece, XML in a Nutshell puts the information at your fingertips.

Simply put, XML in a Nutshell is the critical, must-have reference for any XML developer.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 600 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media; 3rd Edition (September 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596007647
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596007645
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Book Description

What is ? , or eXtensible Markup Language, is a specification for storing information. It is also a specification for describing the structure of that information. And while is a markup language (just like ), has no tags of its own. It allows the person writing the to create whatever tags they need. The only condition is that these newly created tags adhere to the rules of the specification.

In the seven years since the first edition of “: ” was published, has taken its place next to as a foundational language on the Internet. has become a very popular method for storing data and the most popular method for transmitting data between all sorts of systems and applications. The reason being, where HTML was designed to display information, was designed to manage it.

This book begins by showing you the basics of the XML language. Then, by building on that knowledge, additional and supporting languages and systems will be discussed. To get the most out of this book, you should be somewhat familiar with HTML, although you don’t need to be an expert coder by any stretch. No other previous knowledge is required.

“XML: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd Edition” is divided into seven parts. Each part contains one or more chapters with step-by-step instructions that explain how to perform XML-related tasks. Wherever possible, examples of the concepts being discussed are displayed, and the parts of the examples on which to focus are highlighted.

The order of the book is intentionally designed to be an introduction to the fundamentals of XML, followed by discussions of related XML technologies.

  • In Part 1 of the book, you will learn how to create an XML document. It’s relatively straightforward, and even more so if you know a little HTML.
  • Part 2 focuses on , which is a set of languages designed to transform an XML document into something else: an HTML file, a PDF document, or another XML document. Remember, XML is designed to store and transport data, not display it.
  • Parts 3 and 4 of the book discuss DTD and XML Schema, languages designed to define the structure of an XML document. In conjunction with XML Namespaces (Part 5), you can guarantee that XML documents conform to a pre-defined structure, whether created by you or by someone else.
  • Part 6, Developments and Trends, details some of the up-and-coming XML-related languages, as well as a few new versions of existing languages.
  • Finally, Part 7 identifies some well-known uses of XML in the world today; some of which you may be surprised to learn.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2nd Edition (December 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321559673
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321559678
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Book Description

Data exchange is the problem of finding an instance of a target schema, given an instance of a source schema and a specification of the relationship between the source and the target. Such a target instance should correctly represent information from the source instance under the constraints imposed by the target schema, and it should allow one to evaluate queries on the target instance in a way that is semantically consistent with the source data. Data exchange is an old problem that re-emerged as an active research topic recently, due to the increased need for exchange of data in various formats, often in e-business applications. In this lecture, we give an overview of the basic concepts of data exchange in both relational and contexts.

We give examples of data exchange problems, and we introduce the main tasks that need to addressed. We then discuss relational data exchange, concentrating on issues such as relational schema mappings, materializing target instances (including canonical solutions and cores), query answering, and query rewriting. After that, we discuss metadata management, i.e., handling schema mappings themselves. We pay particular attention to operations on schema mappings, such as composition and inverse. Finally, we describe both data exchange and metadata management in the context of . We use mappings based on transforming tree patterns, and we show that they lead to a host of new problems that did not arise in the relational case, but they need to be addressed for . These include consistency issues for mappings and schemas, as well as imposing tighter restrictions on mappings and queries to achieve tractable query answering in data exchange.

Table of Contents: Overview / Relational Mappings and Data Exchange / Metadata Management / XML Mappings and Data Exchange

Book Details

  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan and Claypool Publishers (September, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1608454118
  • ISBN-13: 978-1608454112
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Book Description

Dig into — and transform the way you work with data.

With , you can query data from a variety of sources — including databases, objects, and files — directly from Visual Basic® or #. Guided by data-access experts who’ve worked in depth with LINQ and the teams, you’ll learn how Framework 4 implements LINQ, and how to exploit it. Clear examples show you how to deliver your own data-access solutions faster and with leaner code.

Discover how to:

  • Use LINQ to query databases, object collections, arrays, , Microsoft Excel® files, and other sources
  • Apply LINQ best practices to build data-enabled applications and services
  • Manipulate data in a relational database with Entity Framework or LINQ to
  • Read, write, and manage XML content more efficiently with LINQ to XML
  • Extend LINQ to support additional data sources by creating custom operators and providers
  • Examine other implementations, such as LINQ to ®
  • Use LINQ within the data, business, and service layers of a distributed application
  • Get code samples on the

About the Author
Paolo Pialorsi is a consultant, trainer, and author who specializes in developing distributed applications architectures and Microsoft enterprise solutions. He is a founder of DevLeap, a company focused on providing content and consulting to professional developers. Paolo wrote “ Microsoft LINQ” and “Introducing Microsoft LINQ” both published by Microsoft Press, and is the author of three books in Italian language about XML and . He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Marco Russo is a founder of DevLeap. He is a regular contributor to developer user communities and is an avid blogger on Microsoft Server Business Intelligence and other Microsoft technologies. Marco provides consulting and training to professional developers on the Microsoft .NET Framework and Microsoft Server. He wrote “ Microsoft LINQ” and “Introducing Microsoft LINQ” with Paolo Pialorsi, “Expert Cube with Microsoft Server 2008 Analysis Services” with Alberto Ferrari and Chris Webb, and is the author of two books in Italian about # and the common language runtime.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 704 pages
  • Publisher: Microsoft Press (November 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0735640572
  • ISBN-13: 978-0735640573
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Book Description

Foreword by Darryl Hogan, Architect Evangelist, Corporation

’s highly anticipated query technology makes it easy to retrieve any information programmatically from any data source, no matter where it comes from or how it’s stored. Using , developers can query objects, relational databases, documents, and datasets–and do it all directly from 3.0, leveraging the powerful capabilities of LINQ.

This is a definitive guide to getting real-world results with LINQ, using 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008. In LINQ Unleashed, Microsoft MVP Paul Kimmel covers every facet of LINQ , showing how LINQ can help you dramatically improve your productivity and build more reliable, maintainable applications.

Kimmel begins by reviewing the state-of-the-art # techniques LINQ uses, including anonymous types, partial methods, and Lambda expressions. Next, using realistic examples and easy-to-adapt sample code, he details the most powerful new LINQ techniques for accessing objects, databases, and . You’ll gain a deep and practical understanding of how LINQ works “under the hood”–and learn how to do everything from selecting data through integrating with other data models.

  • Build efficient LINQ queries to objects, databases, and XML content
  • Utilize anonymous types to reduce design time, coding effort, and debugging time
  • Automatically generate state machines with the new yield return construct
  • Master LINQ query syntax, operators, extension methods, sorting, grouping, aggregate and set operations, and more
  • Make the most of select–and use it in the business layer of your n-tier applications
  • Query relational data stored in Microsoft Server
  • Use nullable types to eliminate unnecessary database access plumbing code
  • Use LINQ with 3.0 and Microsoft’s powerful new Entity Framework
  • Extract XML data without the hassles or complexity of
  • Automatically construct XML from CSV files and other non-XML data
  • Query Active Directory by extending LINQ

Introduction  1

Part I     Getting Ready for LINQ
1     Programming with Anonymous Types 5
2     Using Compound Type Initialization  29
3     Defining Extension and Partial Methods  61
4     yield return: Using .NET’s State Machine Generator  85
5     Understanding Lambda Expressions and Closures  97
6     Using Standard Query Operators  121

Part II    LINQ for Objects
7     Sorting and Grouping Queries 137
8     Using Aggregate Operations 151
9     Performing Set Operations  167
10   Mastering Select and SelectMany 185
11   Joining Query Results  211
12   Querying Outlook and Active Directory  239

Part III   LINQ for Data
13   Querying Relational Data with LINQ 265
14   Creating Better Entities and Mapping Inheritance and Aggregation  289
15   Joining Database Tables with LINQ Queries  309
16   Updating Anonymous Relational Data  349
17   Introducing ADO.NET 3.0 and the Entity Framework  383

Part IV  LINQ for XML
18   Extracting Data from XML 415
19   Comparing LINQ to XML with Other XML Technologies  437
20   Constructing XML from Non-XML Data  453
21   Emitting XML with the XmlWriter 463
22   Combining XML with Other Data Models  469
23   LINQ to XSD Supports Typed XML Programming  485

Index

About the Author
Paul Kimmel is a four-time Microsoft MVP, the author of over a dozen books on object oriented programming and UML, including three books on Microsoft .NET, a columnist for codeguru.com, developer.com, informit.com, devsource.com, and devx.com, a cofounder of the Greater Lansing Area .NET Users Group (glugnet.org, East Lansing and Flint), a full-time software developer, and sometimes pilot. Paul still lives and works in the greater Lansing, Michigan, area (and hasn’t given up on the economy). After 15 years of independent consulting, Paul now works for EDS as an application architect.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 552 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 1 Original edition (July, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0672329832
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672329838
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Book Description

: Master the Power of the Hybrid Data Server

Hands-On Solutions and Best Practices for Developing and Managing Database Applications with .
More and more database developers and DBAs are being asked to develop applications and manage databases that involve data. Many are utilizing the highly praised DB2 technology from . In the DB2 , two leading experts from IBM offer the practical solutions and proven code samples that database professionals need to build better solutions faster. Organized by task, this book is packed with more than 700 easy-to-adapt “recipe-style” examples covering the entire application lifecycle–from planning and design through coding, optimization, and troubleshooting. This extraordinary library of recipes includes more than 250 and / queries. With the authors’ hands-on guidance, you’ll learn how to combine pureXML “ingredients” to efficiently perform virtually any data management task, from the simplest to the most advanced.

Coverage includes

  • pureXML in DB2 9 for z/OS and DB2 9.1, 9.5, and 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and
  • Best practices for designing XML data, applications, and storage objects Importing, exporting, loading, replicating, and federating XML data
  • Querying XML data, from start to finish: and data model and languages, /XML, stored procedures, UDFs, and much more
  • Avoiding common errors and inefficient XML queries
  • Converting relational data to XML and vice versa
  • Updating and transforming XML documents
  • Defining and working with XML indexes
  • Monitoring and optimizing the performance of XML queries and other operations
  • Using XML Schemas to constrain and validate XML documents
  • XML application development–including code samples for Java, , , ,PL/1, , and

About the Author
Matthias Nicola is a Senior Software Engineer for DB2 pureXML at IBM’s Silicon Valley Lab. His work focuses on all aspects of XML in DB2, including XQuery, SQL/XML, XML storage, indexing, and performance. Matthias also works closely with customers and business partners, assisting them in the design, implementation, and optimization of XML solutions. Matthias has published more than a dozen articles on various XML topics (see www.matthiasnicola.de) and is a frequent speaker at DB2 conferences. Prior to joining IBM, Matthias worked on data warehousing performance for Informix Software. He received his doctorate in computer science from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany.

Pav Kumar-Chatterjee has worked with DB2 since 1991 on DB2 for z/OS and since 2000 on DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and . He is currently employed by IBM as a technical sales specialist for Information Management in the United Kingdom. He has helped customers implement the XML Extender product with DB2 V8 and has presented on DB2 and XML in the United Kingdom and around Europe.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 792 pages
  • Publisher: IBM Press (August, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0138150478
  • ISBN-13: 978-0138150471
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Book Description

is an open source project and a toolset that builds installation packages from source code. , which is used internally by and by many companies around the World, simplifies many of the installation tasks that used to be shrouded in mystery. The tool set provides a command-line environment that you can integrate into your old-style build processes or you can use the newer technology from inside integrated environments to build your setup packages. You’ll find that you understand your installer better, can create it in less time, and save money in the process. No one really wants to devote a lifetime to understanding how to create a hassle-free installer for any software.

This hands-on guide takes the mystery out of Installer by showing how simple elements can be leveraged to create a sophisticated install package. By relying on standards, you’ll be able to use features like Property elements to customize your application’s entry in Add/Remove Programs, the Shortcut element to create Start menu shortcuts, and other specialized elements for building upgrade and patch support and more.

This book will show you the fundamental ingredients needed to build a professional-grade installer using Windows Installer XML. The initial chapters will introduce you to the set of required elements necessary to build a simple installer. We’ll then explore those basic elements in more detail and see how best to use them in the real world.In the ensuing chapters, you’ll move on to learn about adding conditions that alter what the user can install, then how to add actions to the install sequence and how to author a user interface. We’ll move on to advanced topics such as editing data in the Windows Registry, installing a Windows service, and building your project from the command line. Finally, you’ll learn to localize your package for different languages and detect older versions during upgrades. Each chapter uses to-the-point examples to illustrate the best way to use the language.

Create a hassle-free installer for your Windows software using WiX

What you will learn from this book :

  • Install, start, stop, and uninstall Windows Services at the time of setup
  • Make your project more modular with Fragments, ComponentRefs, and ComponentGroups
  • Learn tips for installing special types of files such as font files and how to optimize copying speed
  • Prevent users from installing your software on unsupported operating systems and introduce other pre-requisite checks
  • Gain an understanding of the order in which events happen during an install and how to add your own actions to this sequence
  • Build a customized user interface that meets the unique requirements of your project
  • Understand how WiX builds and links your files into the final MSI package and how to control this process
  • Read and write to the Windows Registry with XML
  • Build various language-specific installers without duplicating large amounts of code
  • Create rules for checking for and removing older versions of your software or to patch existing files

Approach
A practical guide, this book provides step-by-step instructions for building your installer, showcasing real-world examples throughout. Its purpose is to get the professional developer building installers in no time without getting bogged down in theory. Numerous references to additional resources are provided so that curious readers can supplement the knowledge they gain here with additional details.

Who this book is written for
If you are a developer and want to create installers for software targeting the Windows platform, then this book is for you. You’ll be using a lot of XML so that you get accustomed to the basics of writing well-formed documents, using XML namespaces and the dos and don’ts of structuring elements and attributes. You should know your way around Visual Studio, at least enough to compile projects, add project references, and tweak project properties. No prior knowledge of Windows Installer or WiX is assumed.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 348 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (October, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1849513724
  • ISBN-13: 978-1849513722
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Book Description

From InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with content has been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes, and building chunks of content that can be reused in multiple publications.

In this Short Cut, we’ll play with the contents of a college course catalog and see how we can use for course descriptions, tables, and other content. Underlying principles of structure, DTDs, and the InDesign namespace will help you develop your own processes. We’ll touch briefly on using InDesign to “skin” content, exporting as XHTML, InCopy, and the IDML package. The Advanced Topics section gives tips on using to manipulate XML in conjunction with InDesign.

Contents

  • Extended Contents
  • About This Book and InDesign CS
  • A Brief Foray into Structured Content (a.k.a. XML)
  • InDesign XML Publishing: College Catalog Case Study
  • Importing XML
  • Tagging XML in InDesign
  • Looking Forward: InDesign as an XML “Skin”
  • Exporting XML
  • Validating XML in InDesign
  • What InDesign Cannot Do (or Do Well) with XML
  • Advanced Topics: Transforming XML with
  • ABrief Note about InCopy and XML
  • A Brief Note about IDML and ICML
  • Summary
  • Resources

Book Details

  • Paperback: 111 pages
  • Publisher: O’Reilly Media (October, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1-44939857X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1449398576
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Book Description

This book is primarily a practical reference book for professional developers. It assumes no previous knowledge of the language, and many developers have used it as their first introduction to ; however, it is not structured as a tutorial, and there are other books on that provide a gentler approach for beginners.The book does assume a basic knowledge of , , and the architecture of the , and it is written for experienced programmers. There’s no assumption that you know any particular language such as or Visual Basic, just that you recognize the concepts that all languages have in common.

The book is suitable both for 1.0 users upgrading to 2.0, and for newcomers to . The book is also equally suitable whether you work in the or world.

As befits a reference book, a key aim is that the coverage should be comprehensive and authoritative. It is designed to give you all the details, not just an overview of the 20 percent of the language that most people use 80 percent of the time. It’s designed so that you will keep coming back to the book whenever you encounter new and challenging tasks, not as a book that you skim quickly and then leave on the shelf. If you like detail, you will enjoy this book; if not, you probably won’t.

But as well as giving the detail, this book aims to explain the concepts, in some depth. It’s therefore a book for people who not only want to use the language but who also want to understand it at a deep level.

The book aims to tell you everything you need to know about the XSLT 2.0 language. It gives equal weight to the things that are new in XSLT 2.0 and the things that were already present in version 1.0. The book is about the language, not about specific products. However, there are appendices about Saxon (the author’s own implementation of XSLT 2.0), about the Altova XSLT 2.0 implementation, and about the Java and APIs for controlling XSLT transformations, which will no doubt be upgraded to handle XSLT 2.0 as well as 1.0. A third XSLT 2.0 processor, Gestalt, was released shortly before the book went to press, too late to describe it in any detail. But the experience of XSLT 1.0 is that there has been a very high level of interoperability between different XSLT processors, and if you can use one of them, then you can use them all.

In the previous edition we split XSLT 2.0 and 2.0 into separate volumes. The idea was that some readers might be interested in alone. However, many bought the XSLT 2.0 book without its companion and were left confused as a result; so this time, the material is back together. The reference information is in self-contained chapters, so it should still be accessible when you use in contexts other than XSLT.

The book does not cover Formatting Objects, a big subject in its own right. Nor does it cover Schemas in any detail. If you want to use these important technologies in conjunction with XSLT, there are other books that do them justice.

This book contains twenty chapters and eight appendixes (the last of which is a glossary) organized into four parts. The following section outlines what you can find in each part, chapter, and appendix.

Part I: Foundations: The first part of the book covers essential concepts. You should read these before you start coding. If you ignore this advice, as most people do, then you read them when you get to that trough of despair when you find it impossible to make the language do anything but the most trivial tasks. XSLT is different from other languages, and to make it work for you, you need to understand how it was designed to be used.

Chapter 1: XSLT in Context: This chapter explains how XSLT fits into the big picture: how the language came into being and how it sits alongside other technologies. It also has a few simple coding examples to keep you alert.

Chapter 2: The XSLT Processing Model: This is about the architecture of an XSLT processor: the inputs, the outputs, and the data model. Understanding the data model is perhaps the most important thing that distinguishes an XSLT expert from an amateur; it may seem like information that you can’t use immediately, but it’s knowledge that will stop you making a lot of stupid mistakes.

Chapter 3: Stylesheet Structure: XSLT is about writing stylesheets, and this chapter takes a bird’s eye view of what stylesheets look like. It explains the key concepts of rule-based programming using templates, and explains how to undertake programming-in-the-large by structuring your application using modules and pipelines.

Chapter 4: Stylesheets and Schemas: A key innovation in XSLT 2.0 is that stylesheets can take advantage of knowledge about the structure of your input and output documents, provided in the form of an XML Schema. This chapter provides a quick overview of XML Schema to describe its impact on XSLT . Not everyone uses schemas, and you can skip this chapter if you fall into that category.

Chapter 5: The Type System: 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 offer strong typing as an alternative to the weak typing approach of the 1.0 languages. This means that you can declare the types of your variables, functions, and parameters, and use this information to get early warning of programming errors. This chapter explains the data types available and the mechanisms for creating user-defined types.

Part II: XSLT and XPath Reference: This section of the book contains reference material, organized in the hope that you can easily find what you need when you need it. It’s not designed for sequential reading, though you might well want to leaf through the pages to discover what’s there.

Chapter 6: XSLT Elements: This monster chapter lists all the XSLT elements you can use in a stylesheet, in alphabetical order, giving detailed rules for the syntax and semantics of each element, advice on usage, and examples. This is probably the part of the book you will use most frequently as you become an expert XSLT user. It’s a “no stone unturned” approach, based on the belief that as a professional developer you need to know what happens when the going gets tough, not just when the wind is in your direction.

Chapter 7: XPath Fundamentals: This chapter explains the basics of XPath: the low-level constructs such as literals, variables, and function calls. It also explains the context rules, which describe how the evaluation of XPath expressions depends on the XSLT processing context in which they appear.

Chapter 8: XPath: Operators on Items: XPath offers the usual range of operators for performing arithmetic, boolean comparison, and the like. However, these don’t always behave exactly as you would expect, so it’s worth reading this chapter to see what’s available and how it differs from the last language that you used.

Chapter 9: XPath: Path Expressions: Path expressions are what make XPath special; they enable you to navigate around the structure of an XML document. This chapter explains the syntax of path expressions, the 13 axes that you can use to locate the nodes that you need, and associated operators such as union, intersection, and difference.

Chapter 10: XPath: Sequence Expressions: Unlike XPath 1.0, in version 2.0 all values are sequences (singletons are just a special case). Some of the most important operators in XPath 2.0 are those that manipulate sequences, notably the for expression, which translates one sequence into another by applying a mapping.

Chapter 11: XPath: Type Expressions: The type system was explained in Chapter 5; this chapter explains the operations that you can use to take advantage of types. This includes the cast operation which is used to convert values from one type to another.A big part of this chapter is devoted to the detailed rules for how these conversions are done.

Chapter 12: XSLT Patterns: This chapter returns from XPath to a subject that’s specific to XSLT. Patterns are used to define template rules, the essence of XSLT’s rule-based programming approach. The reason for explaining them now is that the syntax and semantics of patterns depends strongly on the corresponding rules for XPath expressions.

Chapter 13: The Function Library: XPath 2.0 includes a library of functions that can be called from any XPath expression; XSLT 2.0 extends this with some additional functions that are available only when XPath is used within XSLT. The library has grown immensely since XPath 1.0. This chapter provides a single alphabetical reference for all these functions.

Chapter 14: Regular Expressions: Processing of text is an area where XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 are much more powerful than version 1.0, and this is largely through the use of constructs that exploit regular expressions. If you’re familiar with regexes from languages such as , this chapter tells you how XPath regular expressions differ. If you’re new to the subject, it explains it from first principles.

Chapter 15: Serialization: Serialization in XSLT means the ability to generate a textual XML document from the tree structure that’s manipulated by a stylesheet. This isn’t part of XSLT processing proper, so (following W3’s lead) it’s separated it into its own chapter. You can control serialization from the stylesheet using an declaration, but many products also allow you to control it directly via an .

Part III: Exploitation: The final section of the book is advice and guidance on how to take advantage of XSLT to write real applications. It’s intended to make you not just a competent XSLT coder, but a competent designer too. The best way of learning is by studying the work of ot…

From the Back Cover
Combining coverage of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 into one book, this authoritative reference provides equal weight to the powerful new features of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 and the established capabilities of the 1.0 versions. Author Michael Kay has created his own implementation of XSLT 2.0 (Saxon), and he puts his unique knowledge to work in this detailed reference to the elements of the XSLT 2.0 language and the fundamentals of XPath, complete with syntax, practical usage advice, and examples.

The book begins by teaching the essential concepts behind the language, knowledge you need if you are going to write good code rather than just working code. You will discover how XSLT and XPath differ from other languages, and how you use them to create effective -based applications. The central chapters provide meticulous coverage of the language features of XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. You will return to this reference whenever you encounter new programming challenges. You finish with detailed case studies highlighting real applications to give you insights you would otherwise gain only from months of practical experience.

What you will learn from this book

  • All the XSLT elements you can use in a stylesheet and the detailed rules for the syntax and semantics of each
  • How Path expressions enable you to navigate around the structure of an XML document
  • How you can improve your stylesheets by taking advantage of the XML Schema definitions of input and output documents
  • How to take advantage of vendor extensions without losing portability
  • Techniques for taking advantage of XSLT to write real applications

Who this book is for
This book is for experienced programmers who are looking to become proficient with XSLT 2.0. Previous experience with XSLT or XPath is not necessary. However, a working knowledge of XML, , and web architecture is beneficial.

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 1316 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox; 4 edition (May 5, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470192747
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470192740
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Book Description

is an open standard for creating markup languages and exchanging structured documents and data over the Internet. JDeveloper 11g presents an effective, quick, and easy-to-use means of processing documents.

Inspired by the author’s previous articles for the community, this expanded hands-on tutorial guides newcomers and intermediate users through JDeveloper 11g and document . It offers up-to-date information on working with the latest version of JDeveloper, and brand new information on JAXB 2.0 support in JDeveloper 11g. Filled with illustrations, explanatory tables, and comprehensive instructions, this book walks the reader through the wide assortment of JDeveloper’s capabilities.

’s JDeveloper 11g is an Integrated Environment that provides a visual and declarative approach to application . Over the course of 14 chapters, readers will get hands-on with JDeveloper as the comprehensive and self-contained tutorials provide clear instruction on the key XML tasks that JDeveloper can accomplish.

Filled with practical information and illustrated examples, this book shows the reader how to create, parse, and store XML documents quickly, as well as providing step-by-step instructions on how to construct an XML schema and use the schema to validate an XML document.

Oracle’s XML Developer Kit (XDK) offers a set of components, tools, and utilities for developing XML-based applications, and developers will find the detailed XDK coverage invaluable. Later chapters are given over to using , transforming XML with , and using the JSTL XML Tag Library.

Moving through the book, a chapter on the JAXB 2.0 shows you how to bind, marshal and unmarshal XML documents, before we finally delve into comparing XML documents, and converting them into PDF and Excel formats. In all, this book will enable the reader to gain a good and wide-ranging understanding of what JDeveloper has to offer for XML processing.

Creating, validating, and transforming XML documents with Oracle’s IDE

  • Will get the reader developing applications for processing XML in JDeveloper 11g quickly and easily
  • Self-contained chapters provide thorough, comprehensive instructions on how to use JDeveloper to create, validate, parse, transform, and compare XML documents.
  • The only title to cover XML processing in Oracle JDeveloper 11g, this book includes information on the Oracle XDK 11g APIs.
  • Packed with example code and detailed commentary, the book is fully illustrated with functional step-by-step examples.

What you will learn from this book?

  • Learn what JDeveloper 11g can do for XML document generation.
  • Rapidly create, format, compare, and schema validate XML documents.
  • Master the built-in XML features in JDeveloper 11g including schema validation, the XSD Visual Editor for creating an XML schema, the Search tool for selecting XML nodes with , and the JAXB compiler for generating JAXB 2.0 Content Model from an XML Schema.
  • See how to work quickly and efficiently with the Oracle XML Developer Kit (XDK 11g)
  • Gain a valuable understanding of JAXP, XPath, , JAXB 2.0, 3.0, and the JSTL XML Tag Library.
  • Convert XML to Excel and PDF formats, store XML in Oracle Berkeley DB XML, and create Oracle XML Publisher Reports.

Approach
This book is for newcomer and intermediate developers who want to work with XML documents using JDeveloper 11g. No previous knowledge of JDeveloper is assumed but the reader will need to be comfortable in XML and environments.

Who this book is written for?
Employing a comprehensive tutorial-based approach, this easy-to-follow book shows the reader various means of processing XML documents using the power of Oracle’s JDeveloper 11g. In next to no time, the reader will be able to create, format, transform, compare, and schema validate XML documents with Oracle’s IDE.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing (February 26, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1847196667
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847196668
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Book Description

The perfect resource for beginning programmers, this guidebook clearly shows you what is, how to use it, and what technologies surround it. The authors build on the strengths of previous editions while covering the latest changes in the landscape such as , and Atom, and . The most recent specifications are presented along with best practices to follow when developing solutions.

The fourth edition will help you quickly progress from XML basics to more advanced techniques. You’ll delve into the state of the art for XML and databases, discover how to query XML information, retrieve data, and create new XML documents. In addition, you’ll learn how to publish information on the , design dynamic interactive graphics, and make interactive forms. You’ll be able to apply this information to build robust applications in real-world situations.

What you will learn from this book

  • Specific rules to follow for constructing XML
  • How to create and use different XML vocabularies
  • Steps for extracting information and converting it to or other formats
  • Strategies for storing and retrieving XML documents
  • How to manipulate XML using and SAX
  • Tips for improving communication with XML by using techniques, , and
  • How to use to add visual styles to your XML documents

Who this book is for
This book is for any programmer interested in learning how to use XML. Some knowledge of or data exchange techniques is helpful but not necessary.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 1080 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox; 4 edition (May 21, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470114878
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470114872
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Book Description

Professional

Are you ready to revolutionize the way you can work with data? This book shows you how to effectively utilize so that you can query , SQLdatabases, DataSets, and other data sources, and it also delvesdeeper into the technology to demonstrate how LINQ can dramatically improve your applications.

Database pro Scott Klein first examines LINQ and Visual Studio® 2008, the language-specific features that support LINQ, as well as LINQ queries and the LINQ standard query operators. He then shows you how to program with LINQ to with both # and ® and how to use LINQ to XML with other data models. Plus, he walks you through LINQ to queries, advanced query concepts, LINQ to Entities, and LINQ to DataSets. All of this valuable insight will provide you with powerful new tools so that you can easily extend and access information in your databases.

Professional LINQ introduces experienced programmers and database developers to LINQ database queries in their native VB and # languages. Some of the topics covered include:

* LINQ Queries
* LINQ and the Standard Query Operators
* with
* Querying XML with
* Mixing XML and other data models
* DLinq and Queries
* LINQ over datasets
* Interoperating with
* LINQ and ASP.NET

What you will learn from this book
* Features of Visual Studio 2008 and the Framework that will help you better understand LINQ
* The syntax to use when writing LINQ queries
* The concepts, techniques, and fundamentals necessary to program with LINQ to XML
* How to use LINQ to XML with
* All about LINQ to queries and concepts
* Ways to work with the DataContext class and entity objects
* How to build applications using LINQ and associated LINQ providers

Who this book is for
This book is for developers who want to learn about LINQ and how it can benefit and enhance their applications.

Wrox Professional Guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (January 22, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470041811
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470041819
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Book Description

* Supported by all major database systems, provides an easy, standardized method of transferring data between databases and to and from the , independent of the software in use
* Offers database programmers and data-driven developers detailed guidance on how to understand and work with as data
* Numerous hands-on, step-by-step examples help readers learn to simplify database work using XML
* Shows how to use XML to exchange data between multiple databases either internally or with external customers and partners
* Covers XML in popular databases including Database, , and brief coverage of Database
* Covers basic syntax for XML, the XML , and – with an emphasis on database use, and native XML databases
* Additional topics covered include Native XML databases, , , XLink, XPointer, DTDs, XML Schemas, among others

From the Back Cover
The union of XML and relational databases creates a powerful tool with the ability to transfer information between two completely unrelated databases. 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.

You’ll get an in-depth look at specific XML datatypes that are considered the most critical alliances between XML and a relational database. Plus, an introduction to the basics of and numerous XML standards prove to be essential so that you can grasp database structure and comprehend how XML is used with the ® and relational databases. Throughout the book, valuable exercises and a surfeit of step-by-step examples will help you get an overall understanding of the topics at hand.

What you will learn from this book
* The platform independence capability that comes from using XML— including independence from database vendors
* The basics of XML, , the XML , and
* XML datatypes and features in Oracle Database and SQL Server
* How to move data anywhere using XML (B2B)
* Ways to read XML documents using and navigate documents using ®
* XML, the object data model, native XML databases, and industry applications of XML

Who this book is for
This book is for anyone—from novice to expert—who is interested in learning the details of XML and database technology as applied to both XML and relational database technology, working together.

Wrox Beginning guides are crafted to make learning languages and technologies easier than you think, providing a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

About the Author
Gavin Powell has a BSc. in Computer Science, along with numerous professional accreditations and skills. He has had a lot of practice with things like XML, Oracle, Ingres, and MSAccess, as well as a multitude of application languages and platforms. He has almost 20 years of contracting, consulting, and hands-on educating experience—in both software and database administration roles. He has lived, studied, and worked on three different continents, and is now scratching a living as a writer, musician, and family man. He can be contacted at creativemusician@bellsouth.net or info@oracledbaexpert.com.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 470 pages
  • Publisher: Wrox (November 13, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471791202
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471791201
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Book Details

  • Paperback: 672 pages
  • Publisher: Sams (March 19, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0672330636
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672330636
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