Structural join operations are central to evaluating queries against XML data, and are typically responsible for consuming a lion's share of the query processing time. Thus, ...
Interpreted languages have become increasingly popular due to demands for rapid program development, ease of use, portability, and safety. Beyond the general impression that they ...
Theodore H. Romer, Dennis Lee, Geoffrey M. Voelker...
XML is widely praised for its flexibility in allowing repeated and missing sub-elements. However, this flexibility makes it challenging to develop a bulk algebra, which typically ...
Stelios Paparizos, Yuqing Wu, Laks V. S. Lakshmana...
Navigating through tree structures is a core operation in tree processing programs. Most notably, XML processing programs intensively use XPath, the path specification language t...
Often, independent organizations define and advocate different XML formats for a similar purpose and, as a result, application programs need to mutually convert between such forma...