Evaluating partial tree-pattern queries on XML streams

Xiaoying Wu, Dimitri Theodoratos

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Abstract

The streaming evaluation is a popular way of evaluating queries on XML documents. Besides its many advantages, it is also the only option for a number of important XML applications. Unfortunately, existing algorithms focus almost exclusively on tree-pattern queries (TPQs). Requirements for flexible querying of XML data have motivated recently the introduction of query languages that are more general and flexible than TPQs. We consider a partial tree-pattern query (PTPQ) language which generalizes and strictly contains TPQs. PTPQs can express a fragment of XPath which comprises reverse axes and the node identity equality (is) operator, in addition to forward axes, wildcards and predicates. We outline an original streaming algorithm for PTPQs. Our algorithm is the first one to support the streaming evaluation of such a broad fragment of XPath.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'08
Pages1409-1410
Number of pages2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'08 - Napa Valley, CA, United States
Duration: Oct 26 2008Oct 30 2008

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Other

Other17th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM'08
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNapa Valley, CA
Period10/26/0810/30/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Decision Sciences
  • General Business, Management and Accounting

Keywords

  • XML
  • XPath query evaluation

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