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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
3404
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00013374715
Overall Rank
893 | 93.88%
DOI
10.1145/564691.564705

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{grust_sigmod02,
        title = {{Accelerating XPath Location Steps}},
        author = {Grust, Torsten},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/564691.564705},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564705},
        year = {2002}
}

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5,209 Prefix Based Numbering Schemes for XML: Techniques, Applications and Performances 2008 VLDB 6.3163287e-05
5,580 BLAS : An Efficient XPath Processing System 2004 SIGMOD 6.1625053e-05
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12,606 Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs 2008 VLDB 5.093636e-05
12,649 The TopX DB&IR Engine 2007 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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12,751 MIX: A Meta-data Indexing System for XML 2005 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.0020210012
48 DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases 1997 VLDB 0.00044033592
163 On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems 2001 SIGMOD 0.00027839792
202 Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract) 1995 VLDB 0.00025454884
341 Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions 2001 VLDB 0.00020704572
430 A Fast Index for Semistructured Data 2001 VLDB 0.00018600166
1,139 Managing Intervals Efficiently in Object-Relational Databases 2000 VLDB 0.0001202217
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