— XQuery, the defacto XML query language, is a functional language with operational semantics, which precludes the direct application of classical query optimization techniques. ...
XML is quickly becoming the de facto standard for data exchange over the Internet. This is creating a new set of data management requirements involving XML, such as the need to st...
Igor Tatarinov, Stratis Viglas, Kevin S. Beyer, Ja...
XML query caching for XML database-backed Web applications began to be investigated recently. However, the issue of how the cached query results are stored has not been addressed ...
Even though an effective cost-based query optimizer is of utmost importance for the efficient evaluation of XQuery expressions in native XML database systems, such a component is...
In this paper, we propose to extend XQuery - the XML query language - with a set of transformation operators which will produce a copy of an XML tree in which some subtrees will b...
Emmanuel Bruno, Jacques Le Maitre, Elisabeth Muris...