Structurally recursive XML queries are an important query class that follows the structure of XML data. At present, it is difficult for XQuery to type and optimize structurally re...
Sharing of common subtrees has been reported useful not only for XML compression but also for main-memory XML query processing. This method compresses subtrees only when they exhib...
Due to the lack of efficient native XML database management systems, XML data manipulation and query evaluation may be resource-consuming, and represent a bottleneck for several ...
As opposed to traditional Information Retrieval (IR) which views whole documents as atomic units of retrieval, XML IR processes XML elements as possible units of retrieval. Many o...
User queries on extensible markup language (XML) documents are typically expressed as regular path expressions. A variety of indexing techniques for efficiently retrieving the re...