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XML Extender Administration and Programming


How to use this book

This book is structured as follows:

Part 1. Introduction
This part provides an overview of the XML Extender and how you can use it in your business applications. It contains a getting-started scenario that helps you get up and running.

Part 2. Administration
This part describes how to prepare and maintain a DB2 database for XML data. Read this part if you need to administer a DB2 database that contains XML data.

Part 3. Programming
This part describes how to manage your XML data. Read this part if you need to access and manipulate XML data in a DB2 application program.

Part 4. Reference
This part describes how to use the XML Extender administration commands, user-defined types, user-defined functions, and stored procedures. It also lists the messages and codes that the XML Extender issues. Read this part if you are familiar with the XML Extender concepts and tasks, but you need information about a user-defined type (UDT), user-defined function (UDF), command, message, metadata tables, control tables, or code.

Part 5. Appendixes
The appendixes describe the DTD for the document access definition, samples for the examples and getting started scenario, and other IBM XML products.


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