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Expressing and Processing Path-Centric XML Queries

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (Globe 2015, DEXA 2015)

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A family of practical queries, which aim to return or manipulate paths as first class objects, cannot be expressed by XPath or XQuery FLWOR expressions. In this paper, we propose a seamless extension to XQuery FLWOR to elegantly express path-centric queries. We further investigate the expression and processing of intra-path aggregation, an analytical operation in path-centric queries.

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Wu, H., Shao, D., Tang, R., Ling, T.W., Bressan, S. (2015). Expressing and Processing Path-Centric XML Queries. In: Chen, Q., Hameurlain, A., Toumani, F., Wagner, R., Decker, H. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. Globe DEXA 2015 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9262. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22852-5_21

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