A list of books useful for people first learning how to build web XML web applications. 1 Priscilla Walmsley This book is a detailed, through and complete tour of the W3C Query language. It covers all the key aspects of the language as well as a chapter for people familiar with SQL. softcover O'Reilly Media Inc 2007 commercial 39.95 49.95 54.99 http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596006341.do 2 Chris Wallace Dan McCreary Joe Wicentowski Jens Østergaard Petersen This book provides a variety of XQuery example programs and is designed to work with the eXist open-source native XML application server. wikibook Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 Attribution-Non-commercial 0 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery 3 Dan McCreary This book is an excellent guide for anyone that is just beginning to learn the XForms standard. The book is focused on providing the reader with simple, but complete examples of how to create XForms web applications. wikibook Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 Attribution-Non-commercial 0 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XForms 4 Dan McCreary This book is an overview of the key architectural and design patters. wikibook Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 Attribution-Non-commercial 0 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XRX 5 Leonard Richardson Sam Ruby An excellent to RESTful web services softcover commercial O'Reilly Media Inc 2007 419 39.99 6 Micah Dubinko A good overview of XForms softcover commercial 2003 215 39.95 7 Gregor Hohpe Bobby Woolf This book contains a collection of named integration patters. hardcover Addison-Wesley commercial $50.09 http://www.eaipatterns.com/ 8 User:Psweatte Dan McCreary A collection of samples of how to use XPath expressions. wikibook Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 Attribution-Non-commercial 0 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XPath 9 Ann Kelly Dan McCreary Overview of NoSQL for managers and architects. Includes chapters on concepts, patterns and solutions. pdf ePub commercial Manning Publications 29.99 23.99 http://manning.com/mccreary 10 Adam Retter Erik Siegel Overview of the eXist native XML database. pdf commercial O'Reilly Media Inc http://oreilly.com/ 11 Dan McCreary Using Apache Ant with NoSQL databases wikibook Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0 Attribution-Non-commercial http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Apache_Ant