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This paper summarizes the situation about using XLink for connecting XML instances. We discuss applications where XLink functionality can be useful, and derive requirements how the basic XLink technology should be supported in these scenarios. We compare several proposals dealing with interlinked XML data with our dbxlink approach which is a minimal extension to XLink and XPath, and we show how its semantics can be added to arbitrary XPath-based query engines.
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Behrends, E., Fritzen, O., May, W. (2006). Querying Along XLinks in XPath/XQuery: Situation, Applications, Perspectives. In: Grust, T., et al. Current Trends in Database Technology – EDBT 2006. EDBT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11896548_50
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