Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
—In a traditional keyword-search system over XML data, a user composes a keyword query, submits it to the system, and retrieves relevant answers. In the case where the user has l...
— XPath is a common language for selecting nodes in an XML document. XPath uses so called path expressions which describe a navigation path through semistructured data. In the la...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
We propose an efficient approach for finding relevant XML data twigs defined by unordered query tree specifications. We use the tree signatures as the index structure and find...
Pavel Zezula, Federica Mandreoli, Riccardo Martogl...
This paper introduces the MTree index algorithm, a special purpose XML XPath index designed to meet the needs of the hierarchical XPath query language. With the increasing importa...