A complete Oracle Press guide to XML and Oracle XML DB, including practical examples and best practices Oracle Database 11g Building XML Applications teaches you how to use the available XML technology for application design, processing, and data storage. You’ll learn how to put Oracle XML technology to work with best practices for using XML in Oracle applications and databases. The book is organized into three parts. The first section focuses on the basic XML and XML DB concepts and the product features Oracle offers. These chapters contain real-world examples and highlight best practices as well as potential pitfalls. The second section teaches Oracle XML DB management topics including storage, backup, recovery, security, high availability, and performance tuning with examples based on Oracle Database 11gR2. The third section discusses how to build real-world XML applications. Source code, along with extensive explanations of each example, is included. ...