XML is becoming a prevalent format for data exchange. Many XML documents have complex schemas that are not always known, and can vary widely between information sources and applica...
Eugene Agichtein, C. T. Howard Ho, Vanja Josifovsk...
Design principles for XML schemas that eliminate redundancies and avoid update anomalies have been studied recently. Several normal forms, generalizing those for relational databa...
XML data can be stored in different types of databases including Object-Relational Databases (ORDB). Using ORDB, we get the benefit of relational maturity and the richness of obje...
Normalization as a way of producing good database designs is a well-understood topic. However, the same problem of distinguishing well-designed databases from poorly designed ones...
Various index structures have been proposed to speed up the evaluation of XML path expressions. However, existing XML path indices suffer from at least one of three limitations: ...
Zhiyuan Chen, Johannes Gehrke, Flip Korn, Nick Kou...