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ICCSA 2011: Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011 pp 177–191Cite as

XPath for Querying GML-Based Representation of Urban Maps

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Geography Markup Language (GML) has been established as the standard language for the transport, storage and modelling of geographic information. In this paper we study how to adapt the XPath query language to GML documents. With this aim, we have defined a XPath based query language which handles the “semantic structure” of GML. Our approach focuses on querying urban maps whose representation is based on GML. We have developed a system called UALGIS, in order to implement the approach. Such system stores GML documents by means of the PostGIS RDBMS. In order to execute semantic-based XPath queries we have defined a translation of the queries into SQL. Such translation takes into account the GML schema. Finally, the system allows to visualize the result. With this aim, the result of a query is exported to the Keyhole Markup Language (KML) format.

This work has been partially supported by the Spanish MICINN under grant TIN2008-06622-C03-03.

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  1. Information Systems Group, University of Almería, 04120, Spain

    Jesús M. Almendros-Jiménez, Antonio Becerra-Terón & Francisco García-García

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  1. L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., Basilicata University Potenza, 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

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  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, C.P. 39005, Santander, Spain

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  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, VIC, Australia

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Almendros-Jiménez, J.M., Becerra-Terón, A., García-García, F. (2011). XPath for Querying GML-Based Representation of Urban Maps. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21928-3_13

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