We provide complete axiomatizations for several fragments of XPath: sets of equivalences from which every other valid equivalence is derivable. Specifically, we axiomatize downwar...
We consider the navigational core of XPath, extended with two operators: the Kleene star for taking the transitive closure of path expressions, and a subtree relativisation operat...
XPath is the W3C?standard node addressing language for XML documents. XPath is still under development and its technical aspects are intensively studied. What is missing at presen...
We give semantic characterizations of the expressive power of navigational XPath (also called Core XPath) in terms of first order logic. XPath can be used to specify sets of nodes...