Querying XML data is a well-explored topic with powerful databasestyle query languages such as XPath and XQuery set to become W3C standards. An equally compelling paradigm for que...
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Shashank ...
Highly heterogeneous XML data collections that do not have a global schema, as arising, for example, in federations of digital libraries or scientific data repositories, cannot be...
Snippets are used by almost every text search engine to complement ranking scheme in order to effectively handle user searches, which are inherently ambiguous and whose relevance ...
The emergence of database languages with side effects, notably for XML, raises significant challenges for database compilers and optimizers. In this paper, we extend an algebra fo...
The advent of XML as a universal exchange format, and of Web services as a basis for distributed computing, has fostered the apparition of a new class of documents: dynamic XML do...