XQuery is a declarative language for querying and updating XML data sources. Interfacing XQuery to a host programming language is difficult because of the type system mismatch, an...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Michael J. Carey, Daniela Fl...
Traditional databases store sets of relatively static records with no pre-defined notion of time, unless timestamp attributes are explicitly added. While this model adequately rep...
Abstract Although e-commerce is becoming popular, product rules, which describe various conditions such as prices, applicability, and discount conditions are still expressed in nat...
We present a formal framework for capturing the provenance of data appearing in XQuery views of XML. Building on previous work on relations and their (positive) query languages, w...
We study the problem of maintaining recursively-de ned views, such as the transitive closure of a relation, in traditional relational languages that do not have recursion mechanis...