XML is a de-facto standard for exchanging and presenting information on the Web. However, XML data is also recognized as verbose since it heavily inflates the size of the data due ...
Storage techniques and queries over XML databases are being widely studied. Most works store XML documents in traditional DBMSs in order to take advantage of a well established te...
XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...
The WWW contains a huge amount of documents. Some of them share the subject, but are generated by different people or even organizations. To guarantee the interchange of such docu...
The INEX query languages allow the extraction of fragments from selected documents. This power is not much used in INEX queries. The paper suggests reasons why, and considers which...