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The BEA streaming XQuery processor

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This paper describes the design, implementation, and performance characteristics of a commercial XQuery processing engine, the BEA streaming XQuery processor. This XQuery engine was designed to provide high performance for message-processing applications, i.e., for transforming XML data streams. The engine is a central component of the 8.1 release of BEA’s WebLogic Integration (WLI) product. The BEA XQuery engine is fully compliant with the August 2002 draft of the W3C XML Query Language specification and we are currently porting it to the latest version of the XQuery language (July 2004). A goal of this paper is to describe how a fully compliant yet efficient XQuery engine has been built from a few relatively simple components and well-understood technologies.

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  1. BEA Systems, 2315 North First Street, CA 95131, San Jose, USA

    Daniela Florescu, Chris Hillery, Paul Lucas, Fabio Riccardi, Till Westmann, Michael J. Carey & Arvind Sundararajan

  2. Institut für Informatik, University of Heidelberg, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany

    Donald Kossmann

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Received: 12 January 2004, Accepted: 29 March 2004, Published online: 12 August 2004

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Florescu, D., Hillery, C., Kossmann, D. et al. The BEA streaming XQuery processor. VLDB 13, 294–315 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-004-0137-1

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