Preface

Audience

This document is for application developers who want to use the language components of the XDK to generate and store XML data in either a database or a document outside the database. Examples and sample applications are provided where possible.

This document assumes familiarity with XML and either Java, C, or C++.

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Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide

• Oracle Database XML C API Reference

• Oracle Database XML C++ API Reference

• Oracle Database XML Java API Reference

• Oracle Database Advanced Queuing User's Guide

• The XDK home page on Oracle Technology Network

  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database-features/xdk/overview/index.html

For additional information about XML, see:

• Oracle Database 10g XML & SQL: Design, Build, & Manage XML Applications in Java, C, C++, & PL/SQL by Mark Scardina, Ben Chang, and Jinyu Wang, Oracle Press, http://www.osborne.com/oracle/

• WROX publications, especially XML Design and Implementation by Paul Spencer, which covers XML, XSL, and development.

• Building Oracle XML Applications by Steve Muench, O'Reilly, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp/

• The XML Bible, http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/biblegold/

• XML, Java, and the Future of the Web by Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems, http://www.ibiblio.org/bosak/xml/why/xmlapps.htm

• XML for the Absolute Beginner by Mark Johnson, JavaWorld, http://www.javaworld.com/jw-04-1999/jw-04-xml_p.html

• XML And Databases by Ronald Bourret, http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/XMLAndDatabases.htm

• XML Specifications by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), http://www.w3.org/XML/

• XML.com, a broad collection of XML resources and commentary, http://www.xml.com/

• Annotated XML Specification by Tim Bray, XML.com, http://www.xml.com/axml/testaxml.htm

• XML.org, hosted by OASIS as a resource to developers of purpose-built XML languages, http://xml.org/

Examples

Many examples in this document are provided with your software in these directories:

• $ORACLE_HOME/xdk/demo/java/

• $ORACLE_HOME/xdk/demo/c/

• $ORACLE_HOME/xdk/java/sample/

• $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo

Many examples in this document use the sample schemas, which are installed by default when you select the Basic Installation option with an Oracle Database installation. For information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them, see Oracle Database Sample Schemas.

Conventions

These text conventions are used in this document: