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VLDB
2004
ACM
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13 years 9 months ago
Taming XPath Queries by Minimizing Wildcard Steps
This paper presents a novel and complementary technique to optimize an XPath query by minimizing its wildcard steps. Our approach is based on using a general composite axis called...
Chee Yong Chan, Wenfei Fan, Yiming Zeng
DOCENG
2003
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
XPath on left and right sides of rules: toward compact XML tree rewriting through node patterns
XPath [3, 5] is a powerful and quite successful language able to perform complex node selection in trees through compact specifications. As such, it plays a growing role in many ...
Jean-Yves Vion-Dury
SIGMOD
2007
ACM
146views Database» more  SIGMOD 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
Distributed query evaluation with performance guarantees
Partial evaluation has recently proven an effective technique for evaluating Boolean XPath queries over a fragmented tree that is distributed over a number of sites. What left ope...
Gao Cong, Wenfei Fan, Anastasios Kementsietsidis
ICDE
2006
IEEE
155views Database» more  ICDE 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Designing and Evaluating an XPath Dialect for Linguistic Queries
Linguistic research and natural language processing employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural...
Steven Bird, Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Haejoong ...
ICDE
2007
IEEE
132views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
XPlainer: Visual Explanations of XPath Queries
The popularity of XML has motivated the development of novel XML processing tools many of which embed the XPath language for XML querying, transformation, constraint specification...
Mariano P. Consens, John W. S. Liu, Flavio Rizzolo