On Relational Support for XML Publishing: Beyond Sorting and Tagging
Summary: XML publishing reveals a mismatch between XML and relational models; publishing requires relation-valued variables. We propose GApply, a minimal relational operator exposed in SQL, with optimization rules; preliminary evaluation shows speedups. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,287 | Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL | 2003 | VLDB | 6.2891702e-05 |
| 6,211 | From XML view updates to relational view updates: old solutions to a new problem | 2004 | VLDB | 5.1555735e-05 |
| 12,441 | XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 10 of 10 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.0040449103 |
| 51 | Including Group-By in Query Optimization | 1994 | VLDB | 0.00067123727 |
| 218 | Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments | 1995 | VLDB | 0.00033503922 |
| 248 | Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation | 1995 | VLDB | 0.00030785339 |
| 511 | Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00021384332 |
| 639 | Orthogonal Optimization of Subqueries and Aggregation | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00018791492 |
| 1,383 | Querying XML Views of Relational Data | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00012270434 |
| 1,754 | Querying Multiple Features of Groups in Relational Databases | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00010670609 |
| 1,948 | Groupwise Processing of Relational Queries | 1997 | VLDB | 9.989482e-05 |
| 3,701 | Optimizing View Queries in ROLEX to Support Navigable Result Trees | 2002 | VLDB | 6.8301363e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 446 | Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00022925415 |
| 2,952 | On Wrapping Query Languages and Efficient XML Integration | 2000 | SIGMOD | 7.8300484e-05 |
| 8,604 | Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB | 2004 | VLDB | 4.4865165e-05 |
| 2,329 | XQuery on SQL Hosts | 2004 | VLDB | 9.0210652e-05 |
| 12,389 | Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine | 2008 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 153 | Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00040784455 |
| 12,441 | XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 1,383 | Querying XML Views of Relational Data | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00012270434 |
| 12,362 | Relational-Style XML Query | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 511 | Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00021384332 |