XPath is the W3C?standard node addressing language for XML documents. XPath is still under development and its technical aspects are intensively studied. What is missing at presen...
XML languages, such as XQuery, XSLT and SQL/XML, employ XPath as the search and extraction language. XPath expressions often define complicated navigation, resulting in expensive...
We present the first complete translation of XPath into an algebra, paving the way for a comprehensive, state-of-theart XPath (and later on, XQuery) compiler based on algebraic op...
Matthias Brantner, Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kan...
XPath is a simple language for navigating an XML-tree and returning a set of answer nodes. The focus in this paper is on the complexity of the containment problem for various frag...
We present an empirical evaluation and comparison of two content extraction methods in HTML: absolute XPath expressions and relative XPath expressions. We argue that the relative ...
Marek Kowalkiewicz, Maria E. Orlowska, Tomasz Kacz...