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Relational Index Support for XPath Axes

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Database and XML Technologies (XSym 2005)

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In this paper, we designed efficient indexing structure for XML documents so that each basic XPath axis step is supported. The indexing structure is built on top of the B + -tree which is available in practically all commercial relational database systems. For most of the basic axis steps, we are able to derive theoretical worst case execution time bounds. We also perform experimental evaluation to substantiate those bounds.

This research was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR, China [Project No. 9040906 (RGC Ref. No. CityU 1164/04E)].

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  1. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong,  

    Leo Yuen & Chung Keung Poon

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  1. School of Computing, National University of Singapore,  

    Stéphane Bressan

  2. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. Da Vinci, 32, I20133, Milano, Italy

    Stefano Ceri

  3. Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Ela Hunt

  4. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Zachary G. Ives

  5. LIRMM - UMR 5506 CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, 161 Rue Ada, F-34392, Montpellier Cedex 5

    Zohra Bellahsène

  6. Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, 98052, Redmond, WA, USA

    Michael Rys

  7. Universität Duisburg-Essen,  

    Rainer Unland

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Yuen, L., Poon, C.K. (2005). Relational Index Support for XPath Axes. In: Bressan, S., et al. Database and XML Technologies. XSym 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3671. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11547273_7

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