From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities (1994)
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@MISC{Abiteboul94fromstructured,
author = {Christophides Abiteboul and V. Christophides and S. Abiteboul and S. Cluet and M. Scholl},
title = {From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities},
year = {1994}
}
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Abstract
Structured documents (e.g., SGML) can benefit a lot from database support and more specifically from object-oriented database (OODB) management systems. This paper describes a natural mapping from SGML documents into OODB's and a formal extension of two OODB query languages (one SQL-like and the other calculus) in order to deal with SGML document retrieval. Although motivated by structured documents, the extensions of query languages that we present are general and useful for a variety of other OODB applications. A key element is the introduction of paths as first class citizens. The new features allow to query data (and to some extent schema) without exact knowledge of the schema in a simple and homogeneous fashion. 1 Introduction Structured documents are central to a wide class of applications such as software engineering, libraries, technical documentation, etc. They are often stored in file systems and document access tools are somewhat limited. We believe that (object-oriented) d...
