: Over the recent years, very little effort has been made to give XPath a proper algebraic treatment. The only laudable exception is the Natix Algebra (NAL) which defines the tran...
XML is becoming the standard representation format for metadata. Metadata for multimedia documents, as for instance MPEG-7, require approximate match search functionalities to be s...
XML queries typically specify patterns of selection predicates on multiple elements that have some specified tree structured relationships. The primitive tree structured relations...
Shurug Al-Khalifa, H. V. Jagadish, Jignesh M. Pate...
An increasing percentage of the data needed by business applications is being generated in XML format. Storing the XML in its native format will facilitate new applications that e...
Alan Halverson, Vanja Josifovski, Guy M. Lohman, H...