| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| Oracle and XML | p. 1 |
| XML Basic Concepts and Terminology | p. 2 |
| Why XML? | p. 20 |
| Oracle's XML Strategy | p. 21 |
| Oracle's Efforts in the XML Industry | p. 22 |
| Oracle's Technology Network and XML Link | p. 25 |
| Overviews of Oracle's XML-Enabled Products | p. 30 |
| Overviews of Use of Oracle's XML Components | p. 34 |
| An Example and an Application | p. 35 |
| Oracle's XML CORE Technologies | p. 39 |
| XML Parser for Java V2 | p. 40 |
| The Java Class Generator | p. 65 |
| Viewing and Transforming XML with Java | p. 72 |
| XML Parser for PL/SQL | p. 84 |
| The XML Parser and XSLT Processor for C | p. 88 |
| The XML Parser, XSLT Processor, XML Schema Processor for C++ | p. 104 |
| The C++ Class Generator | p. 105 |
| Developing for the Oracle9i Database | p. 109 |
| Oracle9i--An XML-Enabled Database | p. 111 |
| Oracle's JServer and Java XML Components | p. 111 |
| Database Schema and XML Documents | p. 119 |
| XSQL--XSLT/SQL Server Pages | p. 127 |
| The Book-Selling Example | p. 135 |
| Developing for Oracle Application Servers | p. 143 |
| Oracle Application Server Architecture | p. 146 |
| Oracle Internet Application Server Architecture | p. 149 |
| iAS Client Components | p. 155 |
| The Bookstore Application as an OAS Servlet | p. 155 |
| The Bookstore Application as an iAS Servlet | p. 167 |
| The Oracle Internet File System (iFS) | p. 169 |
| Features | p. 170 |
| Benefits | p. 172 |
| Components | p. 173 |
| XML | p. 173 |
| interMedia Text/Oracle Text | p. 174 |
| Document Model | p. 175 |
| Document Properties | p. 176 |
| Document Processing | p. 180 |
| Defining Document Types | p. 181 |
| File Extensions | p. 190 |
| Using iFS | p. 192 |
| Using iFS with XML Files | p. 195 |
| Additional Important Considerations Regarding XML Files | p. 199 |
| Searching XML Documents with Oracle Text | p. 201 |
| Oracle Text as a Next-Generation Text Search Engine | p. 202 |
| Oracle Text Indexing Architecture | p. 203 |
| Working with Oracle Text | p. 207 |
| Oracle E-Business XML Services | p. 221 |
| XML Services Overview | p. 222 |
| XML Services Components | p. 222 |
| Terminology | p. 223 |
| XML Services and SOAP | p. 225 |
| Service Group Guidelines | p. 228 |
| Service Guidelines | p. 229 |
| Security Model | p. 231 |
| Service Execution Details | p. 232 |
| Invocation Guidelines | p. 232 |
| Service Invocation Example | p. 234 |
| Events Guidelines | p. 235 |
| Signal Events Example | p. 236 |
| Signal Event with Filtered Subscribers Example | p. 237 |
| Services That Are Event Subscribers | p. 239 |
| Deploying a New Service | p. 239 |
| Creating an Authentication Profile | p. 252 |
| Creating an Invocation Record | p. 253 |
| Running a Sample Service | p. 255 |
| Invocation and Event APIs | p. 260 |
| Oracle and XML in Action | p. 271 |
| Oracle XML SQL Utility | p. 272 |
| Oracle XSQL Servlet | p. 280 |
| An XML-Powered Web Site | p. 292 |
| XML-Powered Messaging for E-Business | p. 298 |
| A Case Study Using Oracle's XML-Enabled Technology Stack | p. 311 |
| An XML-Enabled FAQ Web Site | p. 312 |
| The Application Requirements | p. 313 |
| The Application Design | p. 313 |
| The Database Schema Design | p. 314 |
| Generating the XML Schema | p. 316 |
| Generating the Java Classes | p. 317 |
| Storing XML Documents as XML Type | p. 318 |
| Creating the Web Application | p. 322 |
| Submitting FAQs | p. 322 |
| Searching for FAQs | p. 330 |
| Using HASPATH and INPATH for XML Type Searches | p. 333 |
| Using Functional Indexes to Improve Search Performance | p. 334 |
| Linking Directly to Database Content with URI-Refs | p. 334 |
| Building the Glossary | p. 335 |
| Extending the Application | p. 337 |
| XML-Based Applications Offered on OTN | p. 339 |
| Accessing the XML Applications | p. 340 |
| What the XML Applications Demonstrate | p. 342 |
| The XML Applications | p. 344 |
| Installing and Running the XML Applications | p. 376 |
| Future Trends | p. 383 |
| The Role of Standards Bodies | p. 385 |
| Industry-Wide Schemas for XML | p. 396 |
| XML's Impact on the Internet | p. 400 |
| W3C XML, DOM, SAX, and XSLT Specifications | p. 405 |
| The XML Specification | p. 406 |
| The DOM Specification | p. 410 |
| The SAX Specification | p. 419 |
| The XML Namespace Specification | p. 423 |
| The XPath Specification | p. 426 |
| The XSLT Specification | p. 431 |
| W3C XML Schema Specification | p. 445 |
| What Is XML Schema? | p. 446 |
| Introduction | p. 448 |
| Other W3C Specifications | p. 453 |
| Other W3C Specifications | p. 454 |
| Glossary | p. 463 |
| Index | p. 477 |
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