Supporting top-k queries over distributed collections of schemaless XML data poses two challenges. While XML supports expressive query languages such as XPath and XQuery, these la...
Among various proposals for primitives for deconstructing XML data two approaches seem to clearly stem from practise: path expressions, widely adopted by the database community, an...
Abstract. One of the virtues of XML is that it allows complex structures to be easily expressed. This allows XML to be used as an intermediate, neutral, and standard form for repre...
As many metadata are encoded in XML, and many digital libraries need to manage XML documents, eļ¬cient techniques for searching in such formatted data are required. In order to eļ...
Giuseppe Amato, Franca Debole, Pavel Zezula, Faust...
This work is a proposal for a database index structure that has been specifically designed to support the evaluation of XPath queries. As such, the index is capable to support all...