Twig queries represent the building blocks of declarative query languages over XML data. A twig query describes a complex traversal of the document graph and generates a set of el...
Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofalakis, Yannis E....
Given the current trend towards application interoperability and XML-based data integration, there is an increasing need for XML interfaces to relational database management system...
Oded Shmueli, George A. Mihaila, Sriram Padmanabha...
XML documents are normally stored as plain text files. Hence, the natural and most convenient way to update XML documents is to simply edit the text files. But efficient query eva...
Barbara Catania, Wen Qiang Wang, Beng Chin Ooi, Xi...
XPath is the standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. We present a sound and complete decision procedure for containment of XPath queries. The considered XPath f...
Experience with relational systems has shown that distribution is an effective way of improving the scalability of query evaluation. In this paper, we show how distributed query e...