Typing and Querying XML Documents: Some Complexity Bounds

Summary: Systematic complexity study of XML validation and XPath query evaluation on unranked ordered trees under DTDs, XML Schema, and tree automata. Establishes data vs. combined complexity bounds and pinpoints tractable vs. intractable XPath fragments. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1289
Venue: PODS
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 0.00010320817
Overall Rank: 1,854 | 87.12%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Luc Segoufin

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,250	The Complexity of XPath Query Evaluation	2003	PODS	9.1949563e-05
3,697	On the Memory Requirements of XPath Evaluation over XML Streams	2004	PODS	6.8281158e-05
4,612	On the Complexity of Nonrecursive XQuery and Functional Query Languages on Complex Values	2005	PODS	6.0428289e-05
5,253	Buffering in Query Evaluation over XML Streams	2005	PODS	5.6002448e-05
6,876	XQuery Optimization	2003	VLDB	4.8947451e-05
12,448	Efficient Algorithms for Evaluating XPath over Streams	2007	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
489	Your Mediators Need Data Conversion!	1998	SIGMOD	0.00021989648
712	Efficient Algorithms for Processing XPath Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00017714027
880	DTD Inference for Views of XML Data	2000	PODS	0.00015642282
1,364	Validating Streaming XML Documents	2002	PODS	0.00012380546
2,250	The Complexity of XPath Query Evaluation	2003	PODS	9.1949563e-05

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