Many English-language papers and articles are available on DB2 XML technology.   You'll find a categorized list of these below.  In addition, some papers have been translated into Chinese.  Search the DB2 zone of the IBM China developerWorks site for such articles.   

For lists of reading materials to get started with pureXML, please follow this link.

DB2 XML:  The Big Picture

• Beyer, K. and 17 additional co-authors.  "DB2 goes hybrid:  Integrating XML and XQuery with relational data and SQL", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 45, Number 2, 2006.
• Bhambhri, Anjul. "Firing up the Hybrid Engine", DB2 Magazine, Quarter 3, 2005. 
• Leung, Gerald and Grant Hutchison. "DB2 XML evaluation guide",  IBM developerWorks, June 2006. 
• Howard, Philip. "The business benefits of DB2 9", Bloor Research white paper, July 2006.
• Nicola, Matthias and Bert Van der Linden. "Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database", Proceedings of the 31st Annual VLDB, 2005.
• McCowen, Sean.  "IBM DB2 'Viper' Swallows XML Whole," InfoWorld special report, August 14, 2006.
• North, Ken. "XML in Focus", DB2 Magazine 3 Quarter 2006.  See also the sidebar  containing an interview with Anjul Bhambhri, IBM senior development manager for DB2 XML. 
• Saracco, C. M. "Managing XML for Maximum Return", IBM White Paper, October 2005. 
• Saracco, C. M. "What's new in DB2 Viper: XML to the Core", IBM developerWorks, February 2006.
• Saracco, C. M. "Get off to a fast start with DB2 Viper",  IBM developerWorks, March 2006.
• Zhang, Guogen.  "Leveraging DB2 9 for zOS pureXML Technology," IBM white paper, March 2007.

Query Languages and Search

• Chamberlin, Don and C. M. Saracco. "Query DB2 XML Data with XQuery",IBM developerWorks, April 2006.
• Chamberlin, Don. "XQuery: An XML query language", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 41, Number 4, 2002. 
• Ledezma, Sal and Bert van der Linden.  "Shred XML documents using DB2 pureXML," IBM developerWorks, January 2008.
• Nicola, Matthias and Uttam Jain. "Update XML in DB2 9.5", IBM developerWorks, October 2007.
• Nicola, Matthias and Fatma Ozcan. "pureXML in DB2 9: Which way to query XML data?", IBM developerWorks, June 2006.
• Ozcan, Fatma and Don Chamberlin, Krishna Kulkarni, Jan-Eike Michels.  "Integration of SQL and XQuery in IBM DB2", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 45, Number 2, 2006.
• Rodrigues, Vitor and Matthias Nicola. "XMLTABLE by example, Part 1: Retrieving XML data in relational format" IBM developerWorks, August 2007.
• Rodrigues, Vitor and Matthias Nicola. "XMLTABLE by example, Part 2: Common scenarios for using XMLTABLE with DB2" IBM developerWorks, September 2007.
• Saracco, C. M.  "DB2 9 Fundamentals exam 730 prep, Part 7: Introducing XQuery", IBM developerWorks, July 2006.  
• Saracco, C. M. "Query DB2 XML Data with SQL",IBM developerWorks, March 2006.
• Saracco, C. M. "Query XML data that contains namespaces," IBM developerWorks, November 2006.
• Seubert, Holger and Sabine Perathoner-Tschaffler. "XML full-text search in DB2",IBM developerWorks,  June 2006.
• SQL and XQuery Tutorials for IBM DB2 , IBM developerWorks, 2006.
• Whitney, Justin. "Introducing the DB2 Viper Workbench, featuring the XQuery Visual Builder,"  devx.com, June 2006.
• Whitney, Justin. "Eye on XQuery" (an overview of the DB2 Developer Workbench XQuery Visual Builder), DB2 Magazine, 3 Quarter 2006.

Application Development

• Bendel, Peter.  "Mine DB2 XML columns with DB2 Data Warehouse Edition data mining," IBM developerWorks, Sept. 2006.
• Bittner, Torsten.  "Generate SQL/XML queries with Rational Data Architect," IBM developerWorks, September 2006.
• Bommireddipalli, Vijay.  "Generate Web services for DB2 9 pureXML," IBM developerWorks, June 2007.
• Bordia, Aakash, and Eileen Lin, Ioana Ursu, Sebastian Hahnel.  "Use WebSphere Federation Service Version 9.1 to integrate XML data," IBM developerWorks, March 2007.
• Daniel, Bryan.  "IBM Workplace Forms V2.6 integration with IBM DB2 V9," IBM developerWorks, March 2007.
• Devlin, Karen.  "Exposing DB2 9 pureXML using WebSphere Integration Developer," IBM developerWorks, September 2007.
• Eaton, Debra.  "DB2 Developer Workbench, Part 1: Concepts and Basic Tasks," IBM developerWorks, August 2006. 
• Eaton, Debra.  "DB2 Developer Workbench, Part 3: Developer Workbench and XML," IBM developerWorks, October 2006.
• El-Hilaly, Mohab and Andre Tost, Alaa Youssef. "Using industry standard data formats with WebSphere ESB and DB2 Version 9 pureXML," IBM developerWorks, June 2007. 
• Farahbod, Farzad and Chat Chatterton, Chenhong Xia.  "Develop proof-of-concept .NET applications, Part 4: Wire your application to DB2 pureXML data," IBM developerWorks, August 2006.
• Farahbod, Farzad.  "XML data validation using IBM DB2 Visual Studio 2005 .Net Add-in" IBM developerWorks, November 2006.
• Giddings, Laura and Andy Stewart.  "XML data solutions with xfy and DB2 9, Part 2: Deliver dynamic XML information solutions,"IBM developerWorks, October 2006.
• Hiura, Hideki. "XML data solutions with xfy and DB2 9, Part 1: Use pureXML to get the full value of your data," IBM developerWorks, September 2006.
• Kogan, Irina. "Using the Altova Tools with IBM DB2 pureXML,"IBM developerWorks, December 2007.
  Kogan, Irina. "Integration of Altova Tools with IBM DB2 9 pureXML demonstrated in the Online Brokerage Application Scenario," Altova and IBM White Paper, February 2008.
• Kokkat, Anson. "Using DB2 XML and Java," IBM developerWorks, October 2006.
• Ledezma, Sal. "The Viper Solution:  A Data Persistence Model using DB2 and PHP", Proceedings of the XTech 2006 Conference, May 2006.
• Ledezma, Sal.  "Work with XML Data in the Zend Framework," Zend Developer Zone, Sept. 2006.
• Leung, Gerald and Lin Sun, "Kick-start your J2EE applications using DB2 9 with pureXML and Websphere Community Edition", IBM developerWorks, September 2006.
• Malaika, Susan and Christian Pichler, "Universal Services for pureXML using Data Web Services", IBM developerWorks, April 2008
• Malaika, Susan and Christian Pichler, "WebSphere DataPower and DB2 pureXML, Part 1: XML schema and content validation using DataPower and DB2 pureXML", IBM developerWorks, June 2008
• Malaika, Susan and Christian Pichler, "WebSphere DataPower and DB2 pureXML, Part 2: DB2 pureXML as an audit log for WebSphere DataPower", IBM developerWorks, June 2008
• Nelson, Philip.  "DB2 9 pureXML Speeds Rudy on Rails Florist Application," IBM Database Magazine, Quarter 3, 2008.
• Moro, Mirella Moura and Susan Malaika, Lipyeow Lim.  "Preserving XML queries during schema evolution," IBM developerWorks, June 2007.
• Oliva, Rex.  "XML in SQL Stored Procedures for DB2 9 (Linux, Unix, and Windows)", IBM white paper(PDF ), June 2006 and IBM developerWorks, January 2007.
• Rodrigues, Vitor. "Developing DB2 9 Pure XML Applications Using TOAD for DB2" Quest.com, January 2007.
• Saracco, C. M. "Develop Java applications for DB2 XML Data",IBM developerWorks, May 2006.
• Saracco, C. M. "Opening the door to XML" (an introduction for Java developers),  DB2 Magazine, 3 Quarter 2006.
• Singh, Hardeep and Amir Malik. "Use DB2 native XML with PHP", IBM developerWorks, October 2005.
• Singh, Hardeep.  "XML Programming with PHP and Ajax,"  DB2 Magazine, 3 Quarter 2006.
• "Using WebSphere Application Server Community Edition v1.0.1.2 with DB2 Express-C V9.1", IBM WebSphere technical support note, August 2006.
• Shetty, Dinesh and Srinandan K Sridhar, Andre Tost, "Using DB2 Version 9 pureXML with WebSphere ESB", IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal, August 2006.
• Singh, Hardeep. XML tooling in DB2 9 (3.2MB) , DB2 Developer Work Bench and Control Center, August 2006
• Singh, Hardeep. How to write hybrid queries for DB2 9 (1.8MB) , queries with SQL/XML and XQuery, August 2006
• Singh, Hardeep, "Programming with XML for DB2, Part 1: Understanding the Data Model", IBM developerWorks, July 2007.
• Singh, Hardeep, "Programming with XML for DB2, Part 2: Leverage database support for XML in your application architecture", IBM developerWorks, Aug 2007.
• Singh, Hardeep, "Programming with XML for DB2, Part 3: Program with XML in the client", IBM developerWorks, Aug 2007.
• Singh, Hardeep, "Programming with XML for DB2, Part 4: Integrate data from different data sources in your Web-based DB2 application", IBM developerWorks, Sept 2007.
• Wells, Keith, Susan Malaika, and Christian Pichler, "XForms and DB2 pureXML", IBM developerWorks, May 2008
• White Paper, "Lotus Forms, XForms and DB2 pureXML, IBM, May 2008
• Whitney, Justin. "XML Everywhere: DB2 9 and Ajax, Part 1" , DevX.com, October 2006.
• Whitney, Justin. "XML Everywhere: DB2 9 and Ajax, Part 2," DevX.com, November 2006.

Performance

• Balmin, Andrey and Kevin Beyer, Fatma Ozcan, Matthias Nicola.  "On the Path to Efficient XML Queries," VLDB Conference Proceedings, 2006.   
• Haide, Michael and Claus Kempfert: "Tuning the Performance of Full-Text Indexing in the DB2 Net Search Extender", IBM White Paper, December 2006.
• King, Nelson. "XML Performance: A Surprising Ace in the Hole," , IBM Database Magazine, May 2008.
• Kogan, Irina and Matthias Nicola, Berni Schiefer. "DB2 9 XML performance characteristics", IBM developerWorks, June 2006.
• Nicola, Matthias and Jasmi John. "XML Parsing:  A Threat to Database Performance," CIKM Conference Proceedings, 2003.
• Nicola, Matthias. "15 best practices for pureXML performance in DB2 9", IBM developerWorks, October 2006.
• Nicola, Matthias. "Exploit XML indexes for XML query performance in DB2 9 ", IBM developerWorks, October 2006.
• Nicola, Matthias and Vitor Rodrigues. "A performance comparison of DB2 9 pureXML with CLOB and shredded XML storage", IBM developerWorks, December 2006.
• Rodrigues, Vitor.  "Indexing XML Documents in DB2 9 pureXML™", IBM White Paper, May 2006.
• Intel, "DB2 9 pureXML Scalability on Intel® Xeon® MP Platforms Using IBM N Series Storage", December 2006.

Administration

• Dua, Aarti. "XML Schema Registration and Validation," IBM white paper, July 2006.   (An accompanying .zip file containing samples is also available for download from this page.)
• Faraaz, K and Ronny Bartsch, Susan Malaika.  "Evolving your XML Schemas using DB2 pureXML", IBM developerworks, March 2008.
• Farabhod, Farzad.  "Introduction to annotated XML schema decomposition using the DB2 Visual Studio 2005 Add-in", IBM developerWorks, November 2006.
• Lapis, George. "XML and Relational Storage - Are they mutually exclusive?". Proceedings of the Xtech 2005 Conference, 2005.
• Olson, Laura and Andre Tost. "Use WebSphere Service Registry and Repository as the master registry for DB2 pureXML schemas" IBM Developerworks, April 2008.
• Pradhan, Mayank. "Default mapping for annotated XML schema",  IBM developerWorks, April 2006.
• Pradhan, Mayank. "From DAD to annotated XML schema decomposition",  IBM developerWorks, April 2006.
• Spalten, Randy and Preethi Vishwanath.  "XML in a non-Unicode database," IBM developerWorks, July 2007.  An accompanying guide to the conversion UDFs, along with sample code, is also available for separate download.
• Williams, Brian. *"Document-Level Security using DB2 9 pureXML and LBAC",*IBM developerWorks, July 2006.
• Vishwanath, Preethi and Randy Spalten.  "Guide to Conversion UDFs," IBM white paper, August 2007.  An accompanying .zip file containing sample code is also available;  click on the link for "UDFs and Client Samples.zip." 
• Yuk, Nelson. "EXPORT and IMPORT for XML Data Type Support", IBM white paper, June 2006.

Migration

• Singh, Hardeep. "XML application migration from DB2 8.x to DB2 Viper, Part 1: Partial updates to XML documents in DB2 Viper", IBM developerWorks, May 2006.
• Singh, Hardeep. "XML application migration from DB2 8.x to DB2 Viper, Part 2: Compare XML functionality in DB2 Viper to XML functionality in DB2 V8.x," IBM developerWorks, May 2006.
• Singh, Hardeep. "XML application migration from DB2 8.x to DB2 Viper, Part 3:  Sample XML migration application scenario," IBM developerWorks, June 2006.

 Solutions 

• Malaika, Susan.  "Get started with industry formats and services with pureXML," IBM developerWorks, May 2007.
• Morrell, John (Coral8).  "Complex Event Processing with DB2 and Coral8", IBM developerWorks, April 2007.
• Saracco, Cynthia M.  "Improving the derivatives trading process with DB2 pureXML," IBM White Paper, June 2007.
• Saracco, Cynthia M. and Robert Snider.  "Supporting SEPA with DB2pureXML," IBM White paper, Sept. 2007.
• Schwartz, Philip and Cynthia M. Saracco, Neal Keene. "Automating the confirmation of derivatives trades," IBM and Thunderhead white paper, September 2007.
• IBM, "DB2 pureXML helps insurers deliver information on demand," IBM DB2 brochure, May 2007.

DB2 9 Certification Exam Tutorials

• DB2 9 fundamentals certification 730 prep series, IBM developerWorks, 2006.
• DB2 9 database administration 731 certification prep series, IBM developerWorks, 2006.

 DB2 for z/OS

• Catterall, Robert, "The Cool Factor: Modern developments stomp the mainframe-as-dinosaur myth for good" (the mainframe is a great platform for the most modern IT initiatives, including those that use service-oriented architectures, XML, J2EE applications, and more.)
• See "Leveraging DB2 9 for zOS pureXML Technology," (listed under "The Big Picture" above)

If You Want To Start Reading about pureXML

The lists below consist of articles and books that help with getting started with pureXML. Most of the articles also appear above in their categories.

General Introduction to pureXML
Saracco, C. M. "What's new in DB2 Viper: XML to the Core", IBM developerWorks, February 2006.
Saracco, C. M. "Get off to a fast start with DB2 Viper",  IBM developerWorks, March 2006.
Nicola, Matthias and Bert Van der Linden. "Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database", Proceedings of the 31st Annual VLDB, 2005.
Rodrigues, Vitor.  "Indexing XML Documents in DB2 9 pureXML™", IBM White Paper, May 2006.
Dua, Aarti. "XML Schema Registration and Validation," IBM white paper, July 2006.   (An accompanying .zip file containing samples is also available for download from this page.)
Yuk, Nelson. "EXPORT and IMPORT for XML Data Type Support", IBM white paper, June 2006.
IBM Redbook, DB2 9 Overview and Fast Start, 2006
More books can be found here
DB2 Documentation can be found here

Querying and Updating pureXML
Saracco, C. M. "Query DB2 XML Data with SQL",IBM developerWorks, March 2006.
Chamberlin, Don and C. M. Saracco. "Query DB2 XML Data with XQuery",IBM developerWorks, April 2006.
Nicola, Matthias and Fatma Ozcan. "pureXML in DB2 9: Which way to query XML data?", IBM developerWorks, June 2006.
Saracco, C. M. "Query XML data that contains namespaces," IBM developerWorks, November 2006.
Ozcan, Fatma and Don Chamberlin, Krishna Kulkarni, Jan-Eike Michels.  "Integration of SQL and XQuery in IBM DB2", IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 45, Number 2, 2006.
Rodrigues, Vitor and Matthias Nicola. "XMLTABLE by example, Part 1: Retrieving XML data in relational format" IBM developerWorks, August 2007.
Rodrigues, Vitor and Matthias Nicola. "XMLTABLE by example, Part 2: Common scenarios for using XMLTABLE with DB2" IBM developerWorks, September 2007.
Nicola, Matthias and Uttam Jain. "Update XML in DB2 9.5", IBM developerWorks, October 2007.

Understanding pureXML Performance
Nicola, Matthias. "15 best practices for pureXML performance in DB2 9", IBM developerWorks, October 2006.
Nicola, Matthias and Vitor Rodrigues. "A performance comparison of DB2 9 pureXML with CLOB and shredded XML storage", IBM developerWorks, December 2006.
XML Database Benchmark: Transaction Processing over XML, http://tpox.sourceforge.net/
Kogan, Irina and Matthias Nicola, Berni Schiefer. "DB2 9 XML performance characteristics", IBM developerWorks, June 2006.
Intel, "DB2 9 pureXML Scalability on Intel® Xeon® MP Platforms Using IBM N Series Storage", December 2006.
Nicola, Matthias. "Exploit XML indexes for XML query performance in DB2 9 ", IBM developerWorks, October 2006.
Balmin, Andrey and Kevin Beyer, Fatma Ozcan, Matthias Nicola.  "On the Path to Efficient XML Queries," VLDB Conference Proceedings, 2006.   

Best Practices
Englert, Susanne and Nicola, Matthias "Best Practices - Managing XML Data,", IBM 2008

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