Native XML Databases in Information Systems

Chris Wallace April 2006

Facilities

The Student servers

(with links to the XQuery Sandbox, The Java Client and Documentation)

New server http://studentexistdb.cems.uwe.ac.uk:8080/exist/index.xml

Last years server

stocks http://stocks.cems.uwe.ac.uk:8081/exist/index.xml

Learning

XPath

Trees ppt

XSLT

Intro to XML and XSLT ppt

XQuery

Introduction to XQuery ppt

Worksheet 1 doc - lessons learnt

Native XML Databases and eXist

Intro to XML and NDX ppt

Introduction to FOLD ppt

Some notes

Worked Examples

Spreadsheet of all in-progress case studies xls

My externally visible examples: http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/chriswallace/index.xql

Internal Teaching Examples

Projects

The FOLD (Faculty OnLine Data) project

Presentations and Papers

Information Systems Research seminar (22 February 2006)

Presentation ppt

SMRG Research seminar (23 February 2006)

Presentation ppt

SPA2006 (27-29 March 2006)

Workshop overview in Word and HTML

Background Paper for the workshop session in Word and HTML

XML Prague (17-18 June 2006)

Presentation PPT

Teaching, learning and Assessment of Databases workshop TLAD06 (17th July 2006)

Teaching XML database with eXist doc

References

R. Bourret(2006). XML and Databases http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLDatabaseProds.htm [accessed 23 April 2006].

Akmal B. Chaudri, Awais Rashid, Roberto Zicari (Eds.): XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems. ISBN: 0-201-84452-4. Published by Addison Wesley Professional, March, 2003.

D. Hunter et al (2004) Beginning XML(3rd edition) Wrox, Wiley

M. Kay (2004) XPath for Programmers, Wrox, Wiley

M. Kay (2006) Building XML Workflow Applications http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml/workflow.html (Accessed 23 April 2006)

J. King (2005) The case for XQuery, XML-Journal. Nov 2005 (http://xml.sys-con.com/read/155663.htm Accessed 23 April 2006)

Wolfgang Meier. eXist: An Open Source Native XML Database. In: Akmal B. Chaudri, Mario Jeckle, Erhard Rahm, Rainer Unland (Eds.): Web, Web-Services, and Database Systems. NODe 2002 Web- and Database-Related Workshops, Erfurt, Germany, October 2002. Springer LNCS Series, 2593. Available at http://exist-db.org/webdb.pdf [accessed 15/2/2006]

Matthew Reed (2005) XML Information Services in archaeological Excavation University of Kent Undergraduate Report

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/ug/2005/co620/xmldig/report.pdf [accessed 15/2/2006].

Links
eXist

Home: http://exist-db.org

Documentation: http://exist.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

Discussion Board: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.text.xml.exist

IRC : http://demo.exist-db.org/irclog/irclog.xql

XSLT

w3schools Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp

EXSLT http://www.exslt.org/

XQuery

w3schools Tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/xquery/default.asp