Efficiently querying large XML data repositories: A survey

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1381-1403

  Gou, Gang ^a   Chirkova, Rada ^a  

^a North Carolina State University

Author keywords

Twig pattern matching; XML query processing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; PATTERN MATCHING; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); XML;

DATA REPOSITORIES; QUERY PERFORMANCE; TWIG PATTERN MATCHING;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 34648844184     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2007.1060     Document Type: Article

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