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...
We study the analysis problem of XPath expressions with counting constraints. Such expressions are commonly used in document transformations or programs in which they select porti...
In this work we investigate the satisfiability problem for the logic XPath( , , =), that includes all downward axes as well as equality and inequality tests. We address this probl...
In this paper, we designed efficient indexing structure for XML documents so that each basic XPath axis step is supported. The indexing structure is built on top of the B+ -tree wh...
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...