Abstract. This paper gives an overview of XML formal models, summarizes database engineering practices, problems and their evolution. We focus on categorical aspects of XML formal ...
The development of XML technology has occurred very rapidly, initially leaving theory behind. As is often the case in such situations, practical development sometimes seemed more ...
An X-to-O mapping takes an XML schema as input and returns an object model as output; this object model is meant for programmatic, schema-aware access to XML data. The provision o...
In this paper we make three main contributions. We firstly define multivalued dependencies in XML (XMVDs) and show that they generalize the definition of a functional dependenc...
XML retrieval is a departure from standard document retrieval in which each individual XML element, ranging from italicized words or phrases to full blown articles, is a potential...