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XML Indexing

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XML employs an ordered, tree-structured model for representing data. Queries in XML languages like XQuery employ twig queries to match relevant portions of data in an XML database. An XML Index is a data structure that is used to efficiently look up all matches of a fragment of the twig query, where some of the twig query fragment nodes may have been mapped to specific nodes in the XML database.

Historical Background

XML path indexing is related to the problem of join indexing in relational database systems [15] and path indexing in object-oriented database systems (see, e.g., [1, 9]). These index structures assume that the schema is homogeneous and known; these assumptions do not hold in general for XML data. The DataGuide [7] was the first path index designed specifically for XML data, where the schema may be heterogeneous and may not even be known.

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An XML document dis a rooted, ordered, node-labeled tree, where (i) each node corresponds to an XML...

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    Xin Luna Dong

  2. AT&T Labs – Research, AT&T, Bedminster, NJ, USA

    Divesh Srivastava

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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    Sihem Amer-Yahia

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Dong, X.L., Srivastava, D. (2018). XML Indexing. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_779

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