Oracle9i

Application Developer's Guide - XML

Release 1 (9.0.1)

June 2001

Part No. A88894-01

Oracle9i Application Developer's Guide - XML, Release 1 (9.0.1)

Part No. A88894-01

Primary Author: Shelley Higgins

Graphics: Valerie Moore

Contributing Authors: Omar Alonso, Sandeepan Banerjee, Neerja Bhaat, Kishore Bhamidipati, Stefan Buchta, Raghunath Chintalapati, Robert Dell'immagine, Brajesh Goyal, Robert Hall, Karun K, Stefan Kiritzo,Vishu Krishnamurthy, Murali Krishnaprasad, Olivier LeDiouris, Janet Lee, Wesley Lin, Bryn Llewellen, Colin McGregor, Ian Macky, Anjana Manian, Becca Martin, Shailendra Mishra, Steve Muench, Bhagat Nainani, Paul Narth, Visar Nimani, Paul Nock, Ami Parekh, Rajesh Raheja, Carol Roston, Frank Rovitto, Tomas Saulys, Mark Scardina, Flora Sun, Prabhu Thukkaram, Rodney Ward, Philipp Weckerle, Manh-Kiet (Allen) Yap

Contributors: Ari Adler, Omar Alonso, Cathy Baird, Phil Bates, Catherine Bauer, Mark Bauer, Ravinder Booreddy, Steve Cave, Steve Corbett, Claire Dessaux, Roger Ford, William Gietz, Steven Leung, Anand Manikutty, Narayan Mantravadi, Jack Melnic, Jitendra Pandey, Andy Page, Rahul Pathak, Padmini Ranganathan, Den Raphaely, Jim Rawles, David Saslav, Chitra Sharma, Keith Swartz, Priya Vennapusa,Melanie Watson, Jon Wilkinson, Vikram Yavagal, Tim Yu, Kongyi Zhou

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