Element constructor is one of most expensive operations of the XQuery language as it requires deep copy of the nodes which make up the content of the constructed element. In this ...
The W3C XQuery language recommendation, based on a hierarchical and ordered document model, supports a wide variety of constructs and use cases. There is a diversity of approaches...
David DeHaan, David Toman, Mariano P. Consens, M. ...
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 Schema awareness has been an integral part of the XQuery language since its early design stages. Matching XML data against XML types is the main operation that backs up XQuery...
Abstract-- We investigate techniques to automatically decompose any XQuery query into subqueries, that can be executed near their data sources; i.e., function-shipping. In this sce...