In XML retrieval, two distinct approaches have been established and pursued without much cross-fertilization taking place so far. On the one hand, native XML databases tailored to...
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has become a ubiquitous data exchange and storage format. A variety of tools are available for incorporating XML-based data into applications....
Jules White, Boris Kolpackov, Balachandran Nataraj...
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 ...
XML repositories are now a widespread means for storing and exchanging information on the Web. As these repositories become increasingly used in dynamic applications such as e-com...
James Bailey, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter T. Wo...
A part of a query that will never contribute data to the query answer should be regarded as an error. This principle has been recently accepted into mainstream XML query languages...
Dario Colazzo, Giorgio Ghelli, Paolo Manghi, Carlo...