Abstract
XML and Web services are revolutioning the automatic management of distributed information, somewhat in the same way that HTML, Web browser and search engines modified human access to world wide information. We argue in this paper that the combination of XML and Web services allows for a novel query answering paradigm, where the exchanged information mixes materialized and intensional, active, information.
We illustrate the flexibility of this approach by presenting Active XML that is based on embedding Web service calls in XML data. We discuss advantages of an approach of query answering based on intensional and active data.
The research was partly funded by EC Project DBGlobe (IST 2001-32645), the RNTL Project e.dot and the French ACI MDP2P.
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Abiteboul, S., Benjelloun, O., Milo, T. (2004). Active XML and Active Query Answers. In: Christiansen, H., Hacid, MS., Andreasen, T., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3055. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25957-2_3
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