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Efficient Processing of XPath Queries Using Indexes

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2002)

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A number of query languages have been proposed in recent times for processing queries on XML and semistructured data. All these query languages make use of regular path expressions to query XML data. To optimize the processing of query paths a number of indexing schemes have also been proposed recently. XPath provides the basis for processing queries on XML data in the form of regular path expressions. In this paper, we propose two algorithms called Entry-point algorithm and Rest-tree algorithm that exploit different types of indexes, which we have defined to efficiently process XPath queries. We also discuss and compare two variations in implementing these algorithms; Root-first and Bottom-first.

Partially supported by UM Research Board Grant and Intelligent Systems Center.

Partially supported by NSERC grant 228127-01 and an internal LURF grant.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Rolla, 65409, Rolla, MO, USA

    Yan Chen & Sanjay Madria

  2. Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Laurentian University, P3E 2C6, Sudbury, ON, Canada

    Kalpdrum Passi

  3. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

    Sourav Bhowmick

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  1. Université Paul Sabatier, IRIT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex, France

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  2. Département Informatique, Université Aix-Marseille II, IUT, 413 Avenue Gaston Berger, 13625, Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France

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  3. Institute of Applied Computer Science, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

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Chen, Y., Madria, S., Passi, K., Bhowmick, S. (2002). Efficient Processing of XPath Queries Using Indexes. In: Hameurlain, A., Cicchetti, R., Traunmüller, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46146-9_71

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