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Document Representations (Inclusive Native and Relational)

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Documents; Markup languages; Page representations; Semi-structured data

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Native document representations are file formats designed for documents. They can be roughly divided into three types: page-oriented, stream-oriented, and tree-structured. Hybrid types can also be found. Within each type, document representations range from the simple to the complex. All native representations assume an implicit order of the document’s information, reflecting the linear reading order of conventional documents. The most important document representation is the Extensible Markup Language (XML), which is tree-structured and can have any level of complexity. It is seeing widespread use on the Web and in business and is also popular for non-document applications.

Relational databases use a variety of document representations that map to a native representation. Page-oriented and stream-oriented documents are best stored in a coarse-grained manner and do not appear to have stimulated...

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  1. Department of EECS, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, USA

    Ethan V. Munson

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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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  1. David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Frank Tompa

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Munson, E.V. (2018). Document Representations (Inclusive Native and Relational). 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_138

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