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Querying Along XLinks in XPath/XQuery: Situation, Applications, Perspectives

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Current Trends in Database Technology – EDBT 2006 (EDBT 2006)

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This paper summarizes the situation about using XLink for connecting XML instances. We discuss applications where XLink functionality can be useful, and derive requirements how the basic XLink technology should be supported in these scenarios. We compare several proposals dealing with interlinked XML data with our dbxlink approach which is a minimal extension to XLink and XPath, and we show how its semantics can be added to arbitrary XPath-based query engines.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Göttingen, Germany

    Erik Behrends, Oliver Fritzen & Wolfgang May

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  1. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Torsten Grust

  2. International University in Germany, Germany

    Hagen Höpfner

  3. University of the Basque Country,  

    Arantza Illarramendi

  4. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Stefan Jablonski

  5. Università di Milano, Italy

    Marco Mesiti

  6. University of Erlangen-Nurmberg, Germany

    Sascha Müller

  7. Institut für Informatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Oettingenstr. 67, 80538, München, Germany

    Paula-Lavinia Patranjan

  8. Dept. of Computer Science and Automation, TU Ilmenau

    Kai-Uwe Sattler

  9. Faculty of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, Germany

    Myra Spiliopoulou

  10. Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium

    Jef Wijsen

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Behrends, E., Fritzen, O., May, W. (2006). Querying Along XLinks in XPath/XQuery: Situation, Applications, Perspectives. In: Grust, T., et al. Current Trends in Database Technology – EDBT 2006. EDBT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4254. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11896548_50

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