Many applications in analytical domains often have the need to "connect the dots" i.e., query about the structure of data. In bioinformatics for example, it is typical t...
— XPath is a common language for selecting nodes in an XML document. XPath uses so called path expressions which describe a navigation path through semistructured data. In the la...
Beda Christoph Hammerschmidt, Martin Kempa, Volker...
“W3QL: A Query Language for the WWW”, published in 1995, presented a language with several distinctive features. Employing existing indexes as access paths, it allowed the sel...
In the last few years an interest in native XML databases has surfaced. With other authors we argue that such databases need their own provisions for concurrency control since tra...
To facilitate queries over semi-structured data, various structural summaries have been proposed. Structural summaries are derived directly from the data and serve as indices for ...