Exploring XML Web collections with DescribeX

ACM Transactions on the Web

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1-46

  Consens, Mariano P ^a   Miller, Renée J ^a   Rizzolo, Flavio ^b   Vaisman, Alejandro A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Semistructured data; Structural summaries; XML; XPath

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; MAPPING;

INCREASED FLEXIBILITY; INDUSTRY STANDARDS; OTHER PROPERTIES; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; SEMI STRUCTURED DATA; STRUCTURAL SUMMARY; WEB DOCUMENT COLLECTION; XPATH;

XML;

EID: 77955011770     PISSN: 15591131     EISSN: 1559114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1806916.1806920     Document Type: Article

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