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Recently, the issues of how to define functional dependencies (XFDs) and multivalued dependencies (XMVDs) in XML have been investigated. In this paper we consider the problem of checking the satisfaction of a set of XMVDs in an XML document. We present an algorithm using extensible hashing to check whether an XML document satisfies a given set of XMVDs. The performance of the algorithm is shown to be linear in relation to the number of tuples of the XML document, a measure which is related to, but not the same as, the size of the XML document.
Supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP0559202.
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Liu, J., Vincent, M., Liu, C., Mohania, M. (2005). Checking Multivalued Dependencies in XML. In: Zhang, Y., Tanaka, K., Yu, J.X., Wang, S., Li, M. (eds) Web Technologies Research and Development - APWeb 2005. APWeb 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3399. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31849-1_32
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