— XQuery, the defacto XML query language, is a functional language with operational semantics, which precludes the direct application of classical query optimization techniques. ...
Semantic query optimization (SQO) has been proved to be quite useful in various applications (e.g., data integration, graphical query generators, caching, etc.) and has been extens...
XML query languages use directional path expressions to locate data in an XML data collection. They are tightly coupled to the structure of a data collection, and can fail when ev...
Sourav S. Bhowmick, Curtis E. Dyreson, Erwin Leona...
As XML-based messages have become common in many client-server protocols, there is a need to protect application servers from invalid or dangerous messages. This leads to the XML ...
XPath [3, 5] is a powerful and quite successful language able to perform complex node selection in trees through compact specifications. As such, it plays a growing role in many ...