Abstract. Relational algebra has been a crucial foundation for relational database systems, and has played a large role in enabling their success. A corresponding XML algebra for X...
While the information published in the form of XML-compliant documents keeps fast mounting up, efficient and effective query processing and optimization for XML have now become mor...
The XML data is order-sensitive. The order problem, that is how ordered XML documents and order-sensitive queries over it can be efficiently supported when mapped into the unorde...
Ling Wang, Song Wang, Brian Murphy, Elke A. Runden...
: Over the recent years, very little effort has been made to give XPath a proper algebraic treatment. The only laudable exception is the Natix Algebra (NAL) which defines the tran...
XML is widely praised for its flexibility in allowing repeated and missing sub-elements. However, this flexibility makes it challenging to develop a bulk algebra, which typically ...
Stelios Paparizos, Yuqing Wu, Laks V. S. Lakshmana...