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Accelerating XPath Location Steps

Summary: Proposes an XML index for XPath evaluation across all axes (ancestor, following, preceding-sibling, descendant-or-self), unlike prior axis-limited work. Enables starting traversals from arbitrary context nodes for XQuery paths; relationally implementable and especially fast with R-tree support; evaluation shows promising results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
3342
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.0001458865
Overall Rank
1,027 | 92.86%
DOI
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7,639 Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect 2007 SIGMOD 4.6904624e-05
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10,501 Relevance Queries for Interval Data 2025 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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12,305 Cost Based Plan Selection for XPath 2009 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
12,412 Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs 2008 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
12,455 The TopX DB&IR Engine 2007 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0032169493
61 DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases 1997 VLDB 0.00064329285
193 On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems 2001 SIGMOD 0.00035610321
242 Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract) 1995 VLDB 0.00031110894
391 Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions 2001 VLDB 0.00024564567
415 A Fast Index for Semistructured Data 2001 VLDB 0.00023814619
986 Managing Intervals Efficiently in Object-Relational Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00014838568
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