QURSED: querying and reporting semistructured data

QURSED enables the development of web-based query forms and reports (QFRs) that query and report semistructured XML data, i.e., data that are characterized by nesting, irregularities and structural variance. The query aspects of a QFR are captured by its query set specification, which formally encodes multiple parameterized condition fragments and can describe large numbers of queries. The run-time component of QURSED produces XQuery-compliant queries by synthesizing fragments from the query set specification that have been activated during the interaction of the end-user with the QFR. The design-time component of QURSED, called QURSED Editor, semi-automates the development of the query set specification and its association with the visual components of the QFR by translating visual actions into appropriate query set specifications. We describe QURSED and illustrate how it accommodates the intricacies that the semistructured nature of the underlying database introduces. We specificall...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Yannis Papakonstantinou, Michalis Petropoulos, Vasilis Vassalos
• Keywords: Database, Query Set Specification, Query Set Specifications, SIGMOD 2002, Web-based Query Forms