We propose a model for XML update primitives of the W3C XQuery Update Facility as parameterized rewriting rules of the form: "insert an unranked tree from a regular tree lang...
The emergence of database languages with side effects, notably for XML, raises significant challenges for database compilers and optimizers. In this paper, we extend an algebra fo...
This work is a proposal for a database index structure that has been specifically designed to support the evaluation of XPath queries. As such, the index is capable to support all...
Close relationships between XML navigation and temporal logics have been discovered recently, in particular between logics LTL and CTL⋆ and XPath navigation, and between the µ-c...
The presence of XML in many recent hypermedia management tools and methods (W3I3, SMIL, etc.) shows better than ever that both structural and textual criteria will continue to pla...
Jacques Le Maitre, Yves Marcoux, Elisabeth Murisas...