DTD and its instance have been considered the standard for data representation and information exchange format on the current web. However, when coming to the next generation of w...
Structured query language (SQL) is a classical way to access relational databases. Although SQL is powerful to query relational databases, it is rather hard for inexperienced user...
Guoliang Li, Ju Fan, Hao Wu, Jiannan Wang, Jianhua...
To support the rapid growth of the web and e-commerce, W3C developed DOM as an application programming interface that the abstract, logical tree structure of an XML document. In t...
For querying structured and semistructured data, data retrieval and document retrieval are two valuable and complementary techniques that have not yet been fully integrated. In thi...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...