Database and XML Technologies Second International XML Database Symposium, XSym 2004, Toronto, Canada, August 29-30, 2004, Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bellahsène, Zohra (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Milo, Tova (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rys, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Suciu, Dan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Unland, Rainer (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3186
• Subjects: Data structures (Computer science).; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Application software.; Software engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Data Structures and Information Theory.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Software Engineering.; Computer Communication Networks.

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Table of Contents:

• Keynote Speech
• Building an Extensible XQuery Engine: Experiences with Galax (Extended Abstract)
• XQuery Processing
• A Light but Formal Introduction to XQuery
• XML Query Processing Using a Schema-Based Numbering Scheme
• Implementing Memoization in a Streaming XQuery Processor
• Searching, Ranking, and Mapping XML Documents
• XQuery Processing with Relevance Ranking
• Information Preservation in XML-to-Relational Mappings
• A Signature-Based Approach for Efficient Relationship Search on XML Data Collections
• XML Constraints Checking and Correcting
• Correctors for XML Data
• Incremental Constraint Checking for XML Documents
• EReX: A Conceptual Model for XML
• XML Processing
• A Runtime System for XML Transformations in Java
• Teaching Relational Optimizers About XML Processing
• Adjustable Transaction Isolation in XML Database Management Systems
• Clustering, Indexing, Statistics
• Fractional XSketch Synopses for XML Databases
• Flexible Workload-Aware Clustering of XML Documents
• XIST: An XML Index Selection Tool.