XPath is the standard declarative language for navigating XML data and returning a set of matching nodes. In the context of XSLT/XQuery analysis, query optimization, and XML type ...
: This work describes a method for processing XPath on a relational back-end that significantly limits the number of SQL joins required, takes advantage of the strengths of modern ...
Abstract. Research on processing XML documents gained much activity in recent times. XML query languages are mostly based on XPath expressions, which are used to select parts of XM...
We propose a new approach for the efficient evaluation of XPath expressions. This is important, since XPath is not only used as a simple, stand-alone query language, but is also ...
Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte
As a simple XML query language but with enough expressive power, XPath has become very popular. To expedite evaluation of XPath queries, we consider the problem of rewriting XPath...