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DBPL
2005
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
On the Expressive Power of XQuery Fragments
XQuery is known to be a powerful XML query language with many bells and whistles. For many common queries we do not need all the expressive power of XQuery. We investigate the eff...
Jan Hidders, Stefania Marrara, Jan Paredaens, Roel...
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Pruning nested XQuery queries
We present in this paper an approach for XQuery optimization that exploits minimization opportunities raised in composition-style nesting of queries. More precisely, we consider t...
Bilel Gueni, Talel Abdessalem, Bogdan Cautis, Emma...
ADC
2006
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Using reflection for querying XML documents
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...
BTW
2007
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Pathfinder: XQuery Compila-tion Techniques for Relational Database Targets
: Relational database systems are highly efficient hosts to table-shaped data. It is all the more interesting to see how a careful inspection of both, the XML tree structure as wel...
Jens Teubner
WISE
2003
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Graphical Environment to Query XML Data with XQuery
XQuery, the standard query language for XML, is increasingly popular among computer scientists with a SQL background, since queries in XQuery and SQL require comparable skills to ...
Daniele Braga, Alessandro Campi
XSYM
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
XQuery Processing with Relevance Ranking
Abstract. We are presenting a coherent framework for XQuery processing that incorporates IR-style approximate matching and allows the ordering of results by their relevance score. ...
Leonidas Fegaras
XSYM
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
Implementing Memoization in a Streaming XQuery Processor
In this paper, we describe an approach to boosting the performance of an XQuery engine by identifying and exploiting opportunities to share processing both within and across XML qu...
Yanlei Diao, Daniela Florescu, Donald Kossmann, Mi...
VLDB
2004
ACM
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14 years 4 months ago
XQuery on SQL Hosts
Relational database systems may be turned into efficient XML and XPath processors if the system is provided with a suitable relational tree encoding. This paper extends this relat...
Torsten Grust, Sherif Sakr, Jens Teubner
EXTREME
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Simple Proof for the Turing-Completeness of XSLT and XQuery
The World Wide Web Consortium recommends both XSLT and XQuery as query languages for XML documents. XSLT, originally designed to transform XML into XSL-FO, is nowadays a fully gro...
Stephan Kepser
XSYM
2005
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
MemBeR: A Micro-benchmark Repository for XQuery
XQuery is a feature-rich language with complex semantics. This makes it hard to come up with a benchmark suite which covers all performance-critical features of the language, and a...
Loredana Afanasiev, Ioana Manolescu, Philippe Mich...