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 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...
There have been several techniques proposed for building statistics for static XML data. However, very little work has been done in the area of building XML statistics for data so...
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional inf...
Feng Shao, Lin Guo, Chavdar Botev, Anand Bhaskar, ...
This paper presents a novel and complementary technique to optimize an XPath query by minimizing its wildcard steps. Our approach is based on using a general composite axis called...