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Using XML views to answer the XML query is an important query optimization strategy especially in the distributed environment. Although many methods have been proposed to handle the single XML view rewriting, they will lead to the redundant computation cost due to the shared paths among different XML views. This paper handles the query rewriting over multiple views by organizing the multiple XML views into a tree called MQTree, in which the shared sub paths among the multiple views have been merged in a top down fashion. In addition, this paper designs a MQTree based query rewriting method. The candidate query rewriting plans are generated over MQTree directly. In order to reduce the validation cost of the candidate query rewriting plans, the preliminary validation is made at the granularity of the path query {//,/,*} over the MQTree first, which prunes the candidate views further and provides the intermediate results for the plans validation at the granularity of the whole tree. The final experiments show the efficiency and effectiveness of our method.
Supported by Project 2006AA01Z230 under the National High-tech Research and Development of China, Project 60503037 under National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Project 4062018 under Beijing Natural Science Foundation (BNSF).
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Gao, J., Wang, T., Yang, D. (2007). MQTree Based Query Rewriting over Multiple XML Views. In: Wagner, R., Revell, N., Pernul, G. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74469-6_55
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