This survey gives an overview of formal results on the XML query language XPath. We
identify several important fragments of XPath, focusing on subsets of XPath 1.0. We then …

Recently, the database research literature has seen an explosion of publications with the
goal of using an RDBMS to store and/or query XML data. The problems addressed and …

Relational XQuery systems try to re-use mature relational data management infrastructures
to create fast and scalable XML database technology. This paper describes the main …

Extensible markup language (XML) is emerging as a de facto standard for information
exchange among various applications on the World Wide Web. There has been a growing …

We propose a new way of indexing XML documents and processing twig patterns in an XML
database. Every XML document in the database can be transformed into a sequence of …

The Internet and World Wide Web have revolutionized access to information. Users now
store information across multiple platforms from personal computers to smartphones and …

In recent years,“document store” NoSQL systems have exploded in popularity. A large part
of this popularity has been driven by the adoption of the JSON data model in these NoSQL …

Relational database systems may be turned into efficient XML and XPath processors if the
system is provided with a suitable relational tree encoding. This paper extends this relational …

Recent IR extensions to XML query languages such as Xpath 1.0 Full-Text or the NEXI
query language of the INEX benchmark series reflect the emerging interest in IR-style …

This PhD thesis addresses the problem of securing data stored on an untrusted server.
There are situations in which personal data or other sensitive information has to be stored …