: Semi-structured data has become more and more attention-getting with the emergence of XML, and it has aroused much enthusiasm for integrating XML and SQL in database community. D...
The ALLDIFFERENT constraint was one of the first global constraints [17] and it enforces the conjunction of one binary constraint, the not-equal constraint, for every pair of varia...
Christopher Jefferson, Karen E. Petrie, Meinolf Se...
Many real-life constraints describing relations between the problem variables have complex semantics and the constraint domain is defined using a table of compatible tuples rather ...
As XML documents contain both content and structure information, taking advantage of the document structure in the retrieval process can lead to better identify relevant informati...
Karen Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem, Claude Chrismen...
The SQL queries produced in XML-to-SQL query translation are often unnecessarily complex, even for simple input XML queries. In this paper we argue that relational systems can do ...