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We propose X-Fun, a core language for implementing various Xml standards in a uniform manner. X-Fun is a higher-order functional programming language for transforming data trees based on node selection queries. It can support the Xml data model and XPath queries as a special case. We present a lean operational semantics of X-Fun based on a typed lambda calculus that enables its in-memory implementation on top of any chosen path query evaluator. We also discuss compilers from Xslt, XQuery and XProc into X-Fun which cover the many details of these standardized languages. As a result, we obtain in-memory implementations of all these Xml standards with large coverage and high efficiency in a uniform manner from SaXON’s XPath implementation.
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Labath, P., Niehren, J. (2015). A Uniform Programmning Language for Implementing XML Standards. In: Italiano, G.F., Margaria-Steffen, T., Pokorný, J., Quisquater, JJ., Wattenhofer, R. (eds) SOFSEM 2015: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8939. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46078-8_45
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