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On Verifying Consistency of XML Specifications

Summary: Analyzes decidability/complexity of consistency checking for XML specs (DTDs plus integrity constraints), concluding that presence of foreign keys usually makes compile-time verification infeasible. Extends decidability to multi-attribute keys with unary FKs and to constraints with regular expressions (providing upper/lower bounds), proves undecidability for relative constraints even when unary, and isolates several restricted decidable fragments. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
1270
Venue
PODS
Year
2002
Pagerank
5.2090945e-05
Overall Rank
6,101 | 57.56%
DOI
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