All existing proposals for querying XML (e.g., XQuery) rely on a pattern-specification language that allows (1) path navigation and branching through the label structure of the XM...
In this paper, we ask if the traditional relational query acceleration techniques of summary tables and covering indexes have analogs for branching path expression queries over tr...
Raghav Kaushik, Philip Bohannon, Jeffrey F. Naught...
A key step in the optimization of declarative queries over XML data is estimating the selectivity of path expressions, i.e., the number of elements reached by a specific navigatio...
Natasha Drukh, Neoklis Polyzotis, Minos N. Garofal...
An XML range query may impose predicates on the numerical or textual contents of the elements and/or their respective path structures. In order to handle content and structure ran...
Hua-Gang Li, S. Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal,...
We investigate the expressiveness of existing XML keyword search semantics and propose Meaningful Connected Network (MCN) as a new semantics to capture meaningful relationships of ...
Junfeng Zhou, Zhifeng Bao, Tok Wang Ling, Xiaofeng...