The Definitive Guide to Berkeley DB XML covers Sleepycat's Berkeley DB XML, an embedded XML database. You'll learn how to avoid added overhead by using a storage mechanism that stores the data natively in XML. The book also covers the full spectrum of Berkeley DB XML tools, including the command-line shell, transactions, rollbacks, replication, archiving, and monitoring. Berkeley DB XML runs on all major operating systems and has support for the most popular programming languages.Berkeley DB XML has the potential to dramatically change and simplify the development of your application's data tier. BDB XML brings that same elegance to the data store: no more SQL, no more database daemons, and no more complex schemas or table techniques to make semantically rich data relational.Author Danny Brian presents XML basics from the ground up, including installation and configuration, plus the cutting-edge technologies behind Berkeley DB XML. The latter includes flexible XML indexing, powerful queries with XPath 2.0, and complex operations using XQuery and FLWOR expressions. The book also covers the API for C++, Java, Perl, Python, and PHP. Overall, you'll learn how to manage the database, learning tips and tricks that you can immediately apply to your own applications.