Managing Structure in Bits & Pieces: The Killer Use Case for XML

Summary: XML-based structuring as the killer use case for scalable data management. Emphasizes easier schema design, evolution, and versioning; cross-application coordination; and architectural implications via XML technologies as a unifying framework. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3754
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: 5.6029996e-05
Overall Rank: 7,529 | 48.35%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066256

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Authors

1. Eric Sedlar (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sedlar_sigmod05,
        title = {{Managing Structure in Bits \& Pieces: The Killer Use Case for XML}},
        author = {Sedlar, Eric},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066256},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066256},
        year = {2005}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,697	On the Path to Efficient XML Queries	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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