The wide adoption of XML has increased the interest of the database community on tree-structured data management techniques. Querying capabilities are provided through tree-patter...
Nowadays, increasing needs for information sharing arise due to extensive collaborations among organizations. Organizations desire to provide data access to their collaborators whi...
Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Anna Cinzia Squiccia...
The proliferation of spatial data on the Internet is beginning to allow a much wider access to data currently available in various Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In order t...
There are three set operators defined in XQuery, namely union, intersect and except. They take node sequences as operands, in which each node is identified by its node-ID and tr...
We consider the retrieval of XML-structured documents, and of passages from such documents, defined as elements of the XML structure. These are considered from the point of view of...