[.ca] Building Oracle XML Applications (ISBN 1565926919)

From Amazon.co.uk:
Aimed at Oracle professionals doing or considering XML work, this in-depth guide, covering Oracle8 and Oracle8i, comes from Oracle's lead XML technical evangelist, Steve Meunch. No prior knowledge of XML is required, but readers are assumed to be familiar with SQL and with programming using Java or PL/SQL. Building Oracle XML Applications opens with an introduction to XML, and an overview of Oracle XML technologies, showing what they do and how they fit together. There is a focus on JDeveloper, Oracle's Java and XML development tool, which can be installed from the CD-ROM supplied, and there are plenty of hands-on examples of how to use it. Then there are chapters on processing XML with PL/SQL or Java, transforming XML with XSLT, publishing data with XSQL pages, generating datagrams (XML documents used for exchanging data), and techniques for storing and loading XML data. The final section has chapters on Oracle XML applications, and topics include an XSQL publishing framework, Java extension functions and using XSQL and XSLT to build personalised portals and discussion forums. This is a fast-paced handbook packed with example code. The presentation is clear and the technical content is based on the author's deep knowledge of Oracle in general and XML technologies in particular. Highly recommended. --Tim Anderson

This book does not cover XMLType datatype ...:
and you won't find any information on it, rest is , best xml book you can get covering oracle.

THE book for Oracle and XML:
This book with real working code samples saved the day for me when building an XML Loader. One drawback: It doesn't explain XSL real well which is crucial for transforming your XML document into the canonical format so I really give it 4.5 stars.

One of the best Oracle books recently:
This is one of the best Oracle books I've read for the last 2-3 years. It combines the importance of the subject with the depth and clarity of presentation technique. For instance, Ch.5 can serve not only as XML with PL/SQL but also as a great source of the PL/SQL scripts and approaches. The author deserves very high marks for the job he's done. I wish I had more books like this. Vad Roytman, Oracle DBA

Good reference for old versions of Oracle:
This book was written in 2000, prior to 9i, which has added a lot of functinality. If you already know XML well and need to augment the rather pathetic Oracle Press books and Oracle On-Line documention, then this is the best book I have read. Many of the examples used in the book do not reflect the real-world examples I have had to deal with, so keep an open mind. Many XML details are assumed by the author or are skipped-over entirely, so if you do not know XML, pick-up an XML book at the same time. The book is dominated by Java; relatively little PL/Sql coverage.

Good Book:
If you want to learn about using Oracle's XML packages and functions, this is a good book. It fills in for the lack of Oracle documentation.