Vertical partitioning is a well-known technique for optimizing query performance in relational databases. An extreme form of this technique, which we call vectorization, is to sto...
Peter Buneman, Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Robert Hutc...
XPath [16] was introduced by the W3C as a standard language for specifying node selection, matching conditions, and for computing values from an XML document. XPath is now used in...
We propose a new approach for the efficient evaluation of XPath expressions. This is important, since XPath is not only used as a simple, stand-alone query language, but is also ...
Sven Helmer, Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moerkotte
: A number of indexing techniques have been proposed in recent times for optimizing the queries on XML and other semistructured data models. Most of the semistructured models use t...
Sanjay Kumar Madria, Yan Chen, Kalpdrum Passi, Sou...
Applications and services that access Web data are becoming increasingly more useful and wide-spread. Current main-stream Web query languages such as XQuery, XSLT, or SPARQL, howe...