Open and Novel Issues in XML Database Applications: Future Directions and Advanced Technologies

International researchers shed light on the third and most recent generation of XML research, in this collection on various challenges, open issues, and future visions in XML databases and applications. The audience for the book includes non-specialists as well as database professionals and researchers, database vendors and developers, and members of the general computer science community. Chapters are in sections on XML repositories and modeling, querying and processing XML, XML personalization and security, and XML for advanced applications. Some specific topics covered include XML document routing, native XML programming, issues in personalized access to multi-version XML documents, and data integration issues and opportunities in biological XML data management. Pardede is affiliated with La Trobe University, Australia. A detailed table of contents gives summaries of each chapter. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)