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Bibliography

• Speaking XML, by Adam Bosworth. December 2002 Column in XML & Web Services Magazine.Shows why DOM and SAX are awkward for many kinds of programming tasks.
  
• XML Is Too Hard For Programmers, by Tim Bray. Blog entry. Discusses the problems raised by Bosworth and Gregorio, suggests that XML stream processing be made idiomatic in as many programming languages as possible.
  
• Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2
  
• Regex-able XML, by Joe Gregorio. Suggests a subset of XML that would be amenable to processing using XPath and Regular Expressions.
  
• DOM (Drudgery Object Model), by Joe Gregorio. Explores the shortcomings of the DOM for everyday programming tasks.
  
• XQuery API for JavaTM (XQJ). Java Specification Request 225. Contains a list of proposed requirements that give insight into the scope of this project.
  
• (ISO-ANSI Working Draft) XML-Related Specifications (SQL/XML), edited by Jim Melton. WG3:HBA-010 = H2-2003-312 = 5WD-14-XML-2003-09. August, 2003. The current draft of SQL/XML.
  
• SQL/XML and the SQLX Informal Group of Companies, by Andrew Eisenberg and Jim Melton. ACM SIGMOD Volume 30, Number 3. September 2001. A report on SQL/XML - much more readable than the specification itself.
  
• SQL/XML is Making Good Progress, by Andrew Eisenberg and Jim Melton. ACM SIGMOD Volume 31, Number 2. June 2002. A report on SQL/XML - much more readable than the specification itself.
  
• SQL/XML in JDBC Applications: The simple way for Java applications to generate XML from SQL queries using the SQL/XML features of SQL 2003, by Jonathan Robie and Peter Coppens. Compares the code needed to publish relational data as XML using SQL/XML, JDBC+DOM+SQL, and the proprietary extensions of IBM DB2 UDB, Oracle XSU, and Microsoft SQL Server.
  
• XQuery: A Guided Tour, by Jonathan Robie. Chapter from "XQuery from the Experts" (see below).
  
• XML Query Working Group Home Page. Contains pointers to all XQuery-related specifications, 20 XQuery implementations, various articles and publications.
  
• XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language. W3C Working Draft 22 August 2003.
  
• XML Query Use Cases, W3C Working Draft 22 August 2003.
  
• XML Query Requirements, W3C Working Draft 27 Jun 2003.
  
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model, W3C Working Draft May 2003.
  
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics, 22 August 2003.
  
• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators. W3C Working Draft 2 May 2003.
  
• XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language, by Howard Katz, Don Chamberlin, Denise Draper, Mary Fernandez, Michael Kay, Jonathan Robie, Michael Rys, Jerome Simeon, Jim Tivy, Philip Wadler. Addison-Wesley Pub Co; 1st edition (September 12, 2003) ISBN: 0321180607.
  
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