We consider unranked trees, that have become an active subject of study recently due to XML applications, and characterize commonly used fragments of ļ¬rstorder (FO) and monadic ...
We consider a fragment of XPath named `forward-XPath', which contains all descendant and rightwards sibling axes as well as data equality and inequality tests. The satisfiabi...
We study visibly pushdown automata (VPA) models for expressing and evaluating queries, expressed using MSO formulas, on words with a nesting structure (like XML documents). We deļ...
We address the problem of tight XML schemas and propose regular tree automata to model XML data. We show that the tree automata model is more powerful that the XML DTDs and is clo...
We show that problems arising in static analysis of XML speciļ¬cations and transformations can be dealt with using techniques similar to those developed for static analysis of pr...