When a client submits a set of XPath queries to a XML database on a network, the set of answer sets sent back by the database may include redundancy in two ways: some elements may...
Maintaining a semantic cache of materialized XPath views inside or outside the database, is a novel, feasible and efficient approach to accelerate XML query processing. However, th...
Guoliang Li, Jianhua Feng, Na Ta, Yong Zhang, Lizh...
As a simple XML query language but with enough expressive power, XPath has become very popular. To expedite evaluation of XPath queries, we consider the problem of rewriting XPath...
Abstract. Access control for semi-structured data is nontrivial, as witnessed by the number of access control approaches in recent literature. Recently a case has been made for exp...
Integrity constraints are an essential part of a modern schema definition language. They are useful for semantic specification, update consistency control, query optimization, inf...