Data integration approaches mostly attempt to resolve semantic uncertainty and conflicts between data sources during the data integration process. In some application areas, this...
XQuery is a declarative language for querying and updating XML data sources. Interfacing XQuery to a host programming language is difficult because of the type system mismatch, an...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Michael J. Carey, Daniela Fl...
This paper proposes an extension to the XQuery language to solve the problem of positional grouping: that is, problems in which it is necessary to convert a flat sequence into a h...
We report on a compilation procedure that derives relational algebra plans from arbitrarily nested XQuery FLWOR blocks. While recent research was able to develop relational encodi...
Retrieving information from heterogeneous data sources in a flexible manner and within a single (database) framework is still a challenge. In this paper we present several extensi...