DVQ: Towards visual query processing of XML database systems

World Wide Web

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 233-253

  Zheng, Shihui ^a   Zhou, Aoying ^a   Zhang, Long ^a   Lu, Hongjun ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

DTD; Path expressions; Visual query; XML

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATA TRANSFER; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); USER INTERFACES; XML;

DOCUMENT TYPE DESCRIPTORS (DTD); DTD; PATH EXPRESSIONS; VISUAL QUERIES;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 3543113312     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023626806508     Document Type: Conference Paper

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