There are three set operators defined in XQuery, namely union, intersect and except. They take node sequences as operands, in which each node is identified by its node-ID and tr...
There are more spots than immediately obvious in XQuery expressions where order is immaterial for evaluation-this affects most notably, but not exclusively, expressions in the sco...
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...
Element constructor is one of most expensive operations of the XQuery language as it requires deep copy of the nodes which make up the content of the constructed element. In this ...
Most aspect-oriented languages provide only a fixed, built-in set of pointcut designators whose denotation is only described informally. As a consequence, these languages do not p...