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ICDT
2010
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Bag Equivalence of XPath Queries
When a query is evaluated under bag semantics, each answer is returned as many times as it has derivations. Bag semantics has long been recognized as important, especially when ag...
Sara Cohen, Yaacov Y. Weiss
WEBDB
2005
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
Towards a Query Language for Multihierarchical XML: Revisiting XPath
In recent years it has been argued that when XML encodings become complex, DOM trees are no longer adequate for query processing. Alternative representations of XML documents, suc...
Ionut Emil Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar
JAPLL
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Complete axiomatizations for XPath fragments
We provide complete axiomatizations for several fragments of XPath: sets of equivalences from which every other valid equivalence is derivable. Specifically, we axiomatize downwar...
Balder ten Cate, Tadeusz Litak, Maarten Marx
VLDB
2005
ACM
125views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Rewriting XPath Queries Using Materialized Views
As a simple XML query language but with enough expressive power, XPath has become very popular. To expedite evaluation of XPath queries, we consider the problem of rewriting XPath...
Wanhong Xu, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
VLDB
2004
ACM
111views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 2 months ago
A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing
XML languages, such as XQuery, XSLT and SQL/XML, employ XPath as the search and extraction language. XPath expressions often define complicated navigation, resulting in expensive...
Andrey Balmin, Fatma Özcan, Kevin S. Beyer, R...