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XViz: A Tool for Visualizing XPath Expressions

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Database and XML Technologies (XSym 2003)

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We describe a visualization tool for XPath expressions called XViz. Starting from a workload of XQueries, the tool extracts the set of all XPath expressions, and displays them together with some relationships. XViz is intended to be used by an XML database administrator in order to assist her in performing routine tasks such as database tuning, performance debugging, comparison between versions, etc. Two kinds of semantic relationships are computed and displayed by XViz, ancestor/descendant and containment. We describe an efficient, optimized algorithm to compute them.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Washington,  

    Ben Handy & Dan Suciu

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  1. LIRMM - UMR 5506 CNRS / Université Montpellier 2, 161 Rue Ada, F-34392, Montpellier Cedex 5

    Zohra Bellahsène

  2. IBM developerWorks 6 New Square, Bedfont Lakes, TW14 8HA, Feltham, Middlesex, UK

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  3. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Leipzig,  

    Erhard Rahm

  4. Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, 98052, Redmond, WA, USA

    Michael Rys

  5. Universität Duisburg-Essen,  

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Handy, B., Suciu, D. (2003). XViz: A Tool for Visualizing XPath Expressions. In: Bellahsène, Z., Chaudhri, A.B., Rahm, E., Rys, M., Unland, R. (eds) Database and XML Technologies. XSym 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2824. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39429-7_9

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