From Structured Documents to Novel Query Facilities

Summary: Maps SGML documents to object-oriented databases and extends two OODB query languages (SQL-like and calculus) for SGML retrieval. Introduces paths as first-class citizens, enabling schema-agnostic, homogeneous querying across structured documents and other OODB apps. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2736
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1994
Pagerank: 0.00024524092
Overall Rank: 393 | 97.27%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 19 of 19 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
73	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00058443993
153	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00040784455
207	Storing Semistructured Data with STORED	1999	SIGMOD	0.00034611968
294	Using Schema Matching to Simplify Heterogeneous Data Translation	1998	VLDB	0.00028669519
1,599	Formal Models of Web Queries	1997	PODS	0.00011202032
1,639	Incremental Maintenance for Materialized Views over Semistructured Data	1998	VLDB	0.00011048834
1,919	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	0.00010094755
2,153	Join Queries with External Text Sources: Execution and Optimization Techniques	1995	SIGMOD	9.4231298e-05
2,284	Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries using Transient-Views	1998	SIGMOD	9.1053836e-05
2,342	Rewriting of Regular Expressions and Regular Path Queries	1999	PODS	9.0015589e-05
2,503	Evaluating Queries with Generalized Path Expressions	1996	SIGMOD	8.6379665e-05
2,593	A Database Interface for File Update	1995	SIGMOD	8.4746844e-05
2,952	On Wrapping Query Languages and Efficient XML Integration	2000	SIGMOD	7.8300484e-05
3,128	Structural Matching and Discovery in Document Databases	1997	SIGMOD	7.5033864e-05
3,994	OdeFS: A File System Interface to an Object-Oriented Database	1994	VLDB	6.5527307e-05
5,198	Algebras for Querying Text Regions (Extended Abstract)	1995	PODS	5.6346171e-05
7,973	Pattern Matching and Pattern Discovery in Scientific, Program, and Document Databases	1995	SIGMOD	4.613363e-05
12,663	Querying Websites Using Compact Skeletons	2001	PODS	4.1945683e-05
12,814	Type Classification of Semi-Structured Documents	1995	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
256	GraphLog: a Visual Formalism for Real Life Recursion	1990	PODS	0.00030259041
271	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00029452935
352	Object Identity As A Query Language Primitive	1989	SIGMOD	0.00026299604
466	Querying and Updating the File*	1993	VLDB	0.00022453592
922	Mind Your Grammar: a New Approach to Modelling Text	1987	VLDB	0.00015297648
1,199	A General Framework for the Optimization of Object-Oriented Queries	1992	SIGMOD	0.00013354204
3,334	A Grammar-Based Approach Towards Unifying Hierarchical Data Models (extended abstract)	1989	SIGMOD	7.2092618e-05

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