A unified approach to structured and XML data modeling and manipulation

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-62

  Magnani, Matteo ^a   Montesi, Danilo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data modeling and manipulation; Heterogeneous representation formats; Query translation; SQL XML; XML; XQuery

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; XML;

DATA MODELING AND MANIPULATION; HETEROGENEOUS REPRESENTATION FORMATS; QUERY TRANSLATION; SQL/XML; XQUERY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746344378     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2005.06.004     Document Type: Article

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