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ICDT
2005
ACM
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14 years 14 days ago
First Order Paths in Ordered Trees
We give two sufficient conditions on XPath like languages for having first order expressivity, meaning that every first order definable set of paths in an ordered node-labeled t...
Maarten Marx
PODS
2008
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
XPath, transitive closure logic, and nested tree walking automata
We consider the navigational core of XPath, extended with two operators: the Kleene star for taking the transitive closure of path expressions, and a subtree relativisation operat...
Balder ten Cate, Luc Segoufin
JACM
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
On the minimization of XPath queries
XML queries are usually expressed by means of XPath expressions identifying portions of the selected documents. An XPath expression defines a way of navigating an XML tree and ret...
Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro, Elio Masciari
DOCENG
2006
ACM
14 years 28 days ago
Comparing XML path expressions
XPath is the standard declarative language for navigating XML data and returning a set of matching nodes. In the context of XSLT/XQuery analysis, query optimization, and XML type ...
Pierre Genevès, Nabil Layaïda
ICDT
2003
ACM
125views Database» more  ICDT 2003»
14 years 4 days ago
XPath Containment in the Presence of Disjunction, DTDs, and Variables
XPath is a simple language for navigating an XML tree and returning a set of answer nodes. The focus in this paper is on the complexity of the containment problem for various fragm...
Frank Neven, Thomas Schwentick