Database and XML Technologies First International XML Database Symposium, XSYM 2003, Berlin, Germany, September 8, 2003, Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bellahsène, Zohra (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chaudhri, Akmal B. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rahm, Erhard (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Rys, Michael (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, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2824
• Subjects: Data structures (Computer science).; Software engineering.; Database management.; Computer communication systems.; Information storage and retrieval.; Data Structures and Information Theory.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.; Database Management.; Computer Communication Networks.; Software Engineering.; Information Storage and Retrieval.

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere. The database c- munity is interested in XML because it can be used to represent a variety of data f- mats originating in different kinds of data reposito...

Table of Contents:

• XML-Relational DBMS
• XML-to-SQL Query Translation Literature: The State of the Art and Open Problems
• Searching for Efficient XML-to-Relational Mappings
• A Virtual XML Database Engine for Relational Databases
• XML Query Processing
• Cursor Management for XML Data
• Three Cases for Query Decorrelation in XQuery
• A DTD Graph Based XPath Query Subsumption Test
• Systems and Tools
• PowerDB-XML: A Platform for Data-Centric and Document-Centric XML Processing
• An XML Repository Manager for Software Maintenance and Adaptation
• XViz: A Tool for Visualizing XPath Expressions
• XML Access Structures
• Tree Signatures for XML Querying and Navigation
• The Collection Index to Support Complex Approximate Queries
• Finding ID Attributes in XML Documents
• Stream Processing and Updates
• XML Stream Processing Quality
• Representing Changes in XML Documents Using Dimensions
• Updating XQuery Views Published over Relational Data: A Round-Trip Case Study
• Design Issues
• Repairs and Consistent Answers for XML Data with Functional Dependencies
• A Redundancy Free 4NF for XML
• Supporting XML Security Models Using Relational Databases: A Vision.