Efficient XML filtering has been a fundamental technique in recent Web service and XML publish/subscribe applications. In this paper, we consider the problem of filtering a contin...
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...
The two observations that 1) many XML documents are stored in a database or generated from data stored in a database and 2) processing these documents with XSL stylesheet processo...
Answering queries using views is a well-established technique in databases. In this context, two outstanding problems can be formulated. The first one consists in deciding whethe...
View updating is a long standing difficult problem. Given a view defined over base data sources and a view update, there are several different updates over the base data sources,...
Ling Wang, Ming Jiang 0003, Elke A. Rundensteiner,...