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I can compare it to "Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with XML" (Graeme Malcolm, Microsoft Press), which I started at the beginning and worked through to a working project.

The examples in the early chapters of "Oracle XML Applications" don't work. By imaginative use of the index I have found some stuff in chapter 8 that might yet get me started. Now I am locked in combat with the JDeveloper that came on the cover CD.

I had forgotten how much I hated Borland JBuilder, which is the root of this hostile, unhelpful application. I am taking time off from persuading it not to put my test files in C:\Program Files.