XQuery is widely used for querying XML documents. Within this paper, we examine optimization rules for XQuery queries that exploit type information of the input XML document given ...
XML-based databases have become a major area of in database research. Abstractly speaking they can be considered as a resurrection of complexvalue databases using constructors for...
Markus Kirchberg, Faizal Riaz-ud-Din, Klaus-Dieter...
XML has emerged as the standard data exchange format for Internet-based business applications. This has created the need to publish existing business data, stored in relational da...
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Jerry Kiernan, Eugene J....
In the past few years, much attention has been paid to the study of semistructured data, i.e., data with irregular, possibly unstable, and rapidly changing structure, and, in part...
XQuery, the standard query language for XML, is gaining popularity among users with a SQL background; indeed, formulating XQuery and SQL queries requires comparable skills. Howeve...