Table of Contents:
  • Invited Talk (Shared with DBPL)
  • Patterns and Types for Querying XML Documents
  • Constraints and Views
  • Checking Functional Dependency Satisfaction in XML
  • A Theoretic Framework for Answering XPath Queries Using Views
  • Labeling and Path Evaluation
  • A Path-Based Labeling Scheme for Efficient Structural Join
  • The BIRD Numbering Scheme for XML and Tree Databases – Deciding and Reconstructing Tree Relations Using Efficient Arithmetic Operations
  • Efficient Handling of Positional Predicates Within XML Query Processing
  • Indexing
  • Relational Index Support for XPath Axes
  • Supporting XPath Axes with Relational Databases Using a Proxy Index
  • An Extended Preorder Index for Optimising XPath Expressions
  • Benchmarking and Query Processing
  • XPathMark: An XPath Benchmark for the XMark Generated Data
  • MemBeR: A Micro-benchmark Repository for XQuery
  • Main Memory Implementations for Binary Grouping
  • Documents and Biometrical Applications
  • Logic Wrappers and XSLT Transformations for Tuples Extraction from HTML
  • Approximate Subtree Identification in Heterogeneous XML Documents Collections
  • A Framework for XML-Based Integration of Data, Visualization and Analysis in a Biomedical Domain
  • Industrial Session
  • Optimizing Runtime XML Processing in Relational Databases
  • Panel (Together with DBPL)
  • Panel: “Whither XML, ca. 2005?”.