XQBE: A graphical environment to query XML data

World Wide Web

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 287-316

  Braga, Daniele ^a   Campi, Alessandro ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Query languages; Visual interfaces; XML

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844551194     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11280-005-0646-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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