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)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,280 | Primitives for Workload Summarization and Implications for SQL | 2003 | VLDB | 6.28375e-05 |
| 6,210 | From XML view updates to relational view updates: old solutions to a new problem | 2004 | VLDB | 5.1506157e-05 |
| 12,450 | XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-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 | 0.0040465394 |
| 51 | Including Group-By in Query Optimization | 1994 | VLDB | 0.00067060283 |
| 218 | Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments | 1995 | VLDB | 0.00033489004 |
| 249 | Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation | 1995 | VLDB | 0.00030773137 |
| 513 | Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00021365031 |
| 640 | Orthogonal Optimization of Subqueries and Aggregation | 2001 | SIGMOD | 0.00018780632 |
| 1,384 | Querying XML Views of Relational Data | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00012259503 |
| 1,754 | Querying Multiple Features of Groups in Relational Databases | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00010663123 |
| 1,952 | Groupwise Processing of Relational Queries | 1997 | VLDB | 9.9806285e-05 |
| 3,705 | Optimizing View Queries in ROLEX to Support Navigable Result Trees | 2002 | VLDB | 6.8235636e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 447 | Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System | 2002 | SIGMOD | 0.00022927245 |
| 2,953 | On Wrapping Query Languages and Efficient XML Integration | 2000 | SIGMOD | 7.8225025e-05 |
| 8,603 | Query Rewrite for XML in Oracle XML DB | 2004 | VLDB | 4.4822157e-05 |
| 2,333 | XQuery on SQL Hosts | 2004 | VLDB | 9.0127497e-05 |
| 12,398 | Towards a Physical XML independent XQuery/SQL/XML Engine | 2008 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 153 | Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00040759404 |
| 12,450 | XPath on Steroids: Exploiting Relational Engines for XPath Performance | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 1,384 | Querying XML Views of Relational Data | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00012259503 |
| 12,370 | Relational-Style XML Query | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 513 | Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00021365031 |