— XQuery, the defacto XML query language, is a functional language with operational semantics, which precludes the direct application of classical query optimization techniques. ...
This paper is concerned with storing XML data in a native repository suitable for querying with modern languages such as XPath or XQuery. It contains a description of the experimen...
Monadic query languages over trees currently receive considerable interest in the database community, as the problem of selecting nodes from a tree is the most basic and widesprea...
We consider a fragment of XPath named `forward-XPath', which contains all descendant and rightwards sibling axes as well as data equality and inequality tests. The satisfiabi...
The ubiquitous adoption of XML as the standard of data exchange over the web has led to increased interest in building efficient and scalable XML publish-subscribe (pub-sub) syste...