One of the key benefits of XML is its ability to represent a mix of structured and unstructured (text) data. Although current XML query languages such as XPath and XQuery can expr...
The recent proliferation of XML-based standards and technologies for managing data on the Web demonstrates the need for effective and efficient management of treestructured data....
XPath is the standard language for addressing parts of an XML document. We present a sound and complete decision procedure for containment of XPath queries. The considered XPath f...
In this paper, we describe the TIMBER XML database system implemented at University of Michigan. TIMBER was one of the first native XML database systems, designed from the ground ...
In response to the widespread use of the XML format for document representation and message exchange, major database vendors support XML in terms of persistence, querying and inde...