""Front Cover""; ""Querying XML: XQuery, XPath, and SQL/XML in Context""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Content""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Part I: XML: Documents and Data""; ""Chapter 1. XML""; ""1.1 Introduction""; ""1.2 Adding Markup to Data""; ""1.3 XML-Based Markup Languages""; ""1.4 XML Data""; ""1.5 Some Other Ways to Represent Data""; ""1.6 Chapter Summary""; ""Chapter 2. Querying""; ""2.1 Introduction""; ""2.2 Querying Traditional Data""; ""2.3 Querying Nontraditional Data""; ""2.4 Chapter Summary""; ""Chapter 3. Querying XML""; ""3. I Introduction""; ""3.2 Navigating an XML Document"" ""3.3 What DoYou Know about Your Data?""""3.4 Some Ways to Query XMLToday""; ""3.5 Chapter Summary""; ""Part II: Metadata and XML""; ""Chapter 4. Metadata � An Overview""; ""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Structural Metadata""; ""4.3 Semantic Metadata""; ""4.4 Catalog Metadata""; ""4.5 Integration Metadata""; ""4.6 Chapter Summary""; ""Chapter 5. Structural Metadata""; ""5.1 Introduction""; ""5.2 DTDs""; ""5.3 XML Schema""; ""5.4 Other Schema Languages for XML""; ""5.5 Deriving an Implied Schema from a DTD""; ""5.6 Chapter Summary""; ""Chapter 6. The XML Information Set (Infoset) and Beyond"" ""6.1 Introduction""""6.2 What Is the Infoset?""; ""6.3 The Infoset Information Items and Their Properties""; ""6.4 The Infoset vs.the Document""; ""6.5 The XPath 1.0 Data Model""; ""6.6 The Post-Schema-Validation Infoset (PSVI)""; ""6.7 The Document Object Model (DOM) � An API""; ""6.8 Introducing the XQuery Data Model""; ""6.9 A Note Regarding Data Model Terminology""; ""6.10 Chapter Summary and Further Reading""; ""Part III: Managing and Storing XML for Querying""; ""Chapter 7. Managing XML: Transforming and Connecting""; ""7.1 Introduction"" ""7.2 Transforming, Formatting, and Displaying XML""""7.3 The Relationships between XML Documents""; ""7.4 Relationship Constraints: Enforcing Consistency""; ""7.5 Chapter Summary""; ""Chapter 8. Storing: XML and Databases""; ""8.1 Introduction""; ""8.2 The Need for Persistence""; ""8.3 SQL/XML's XMLType""; ""8.4 Accessing Persistent XML Data""; ""8.5 XML on the Fly: Nonpersistent XML Data""; ""8.6 Chapter Summary""; ""Part IV: Querying XML""; ""Chapter 9. XPath 1.0 and XPath 2.0""; ""9.1 Introduction""; ""9.2 XPath 1.0""; ""9.3 XPath 2.0 Components""; ""9.4 XPath 2.0 and XQuery"" ""9.5 Chapter Summary""""Chapter 10. Introduction to XQuery""; ""10.1 Introduction""; ""10.2 A Brief History""; ""10.3 Requirements""; ""10.4 Use Cases""; ""10.5 The XQuery 1.0 Suite of Specifications""; ""10.6 The Data Model ""; ""10.7 The XQueryType System""; ""10.8 XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics and Static Typing""; ""10.9 Functions and Operators""; ""10.10 XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0 Serialization""; ""10.11 Chapter Summary""; ""Chapter 11. XQuery 1.0 Definition""; ""11.1 Introduction""; ""11.2 Overview of XQuery""; ""11.3 The XQuery Processing Model""; ""11.4 The XQuery Grammar"" ""11.5 XQuery Expressions"" This Handbook deals with the foundations of incidence geometry, in relationship with division rings, rings, algebras, lattices, groups, topology, graphs, logic and its autonomous development from various viewpoints. Projective and affine geometry are covered in various ways. Major classes of rank 2 geometries such as generalized polygons and partial geometries are surveyed extensively. More than half of the book is devoted to buildings at various levels of generality, including a detailed and original introduction to the subject, a broad study of characterizations in terms of points and lines, applications to algebraic groups, extensions to topological geometry, a survey of results on diagram geometries and nearby generalizations such as matroids | 
