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JACM
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
On the minimization of XPath queries
XML queries are usually expressed by means of XPath expressions identifying portions of the selected documents. An XPath expression defines a way of navigating an XML tree and ret...
Sergio Flesca, Filippo Furfaro, Elio Masciari
VLDB
2005
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Rewriting XPath Queries Using Materialized Views
As a simple XML query language but with enough expressive power, XPath has become very popular. To expedite evaluation of XPath queries, we consider the problem of rewriting XPath...
Wanhong Xu, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
ICDE
2006
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Algebraic Optimization of Nested XPath Expressions
The XPath language incorporates powerful primitives for formulating queries containing nested subexpressions which are existentially or universally quantified. However, even the b...
Matthias Brantner, Carl-Christian Kanne, Guido Moe...
VLDB
2004
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing
XML languages, such as XQuery, XSLT and SQL/XML, employ XPath as the search and extraction language. XPath expressions often define complicated navigation, resulting in expensive...
Andrey Balmin, Fatma Özcan, Kevin S. Beyer, R...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A heuristic approach for checking containment of generalized tree-pattern queries
Query processing techniques for XML data have focused mainly on tree-pattern queries (TPQs). However, the need for querying XML data sources whose structure is very complex or not...
Pawel Placek, Dimitri Theodoratos, Stefanos Soulda...