Querying XML with Update Syntax

Summary: Transform queries under XQuery Update compute the result of embedded updates on T without mutating T. Automaton-based evaluation with SAX; three algorithms enable transform execution and XQuery composition; linear-time handling of large XML; rewrite to a single XQuery; experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3921
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,634 | 13.32%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247515

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Authors

1. Wenfei Fan (AT&T; University of Edinburgh)
2. Gao Cong (Microsoft)
3. Philip Bohannon (Yahoo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fan_sigmod07,
        title = {{Querying XML with Update Syntax}},
        author = {Fan, Wenfei and Cong, Gao and Bohannon, Philip},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247515},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247515},
        year = {2007}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
79	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00036555628
666	Efficient Algorithms for Processing XPath Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00015166582
738	Stream Processing of XPath Queries with Predicates	2003	SIGMOD	0.00014484337
2,625	Efficient Processing of Expressive Node-Selecting Queries on XML Data in Secondary Storage: A Tree Automata-based Approach	2003	VLDB	8.3300135e-05
2,757	Secure XML Querying with Security Views	2004	SIGMOD	8.1601016e-05
2,772	Updating XML	2001	SIGMOD	8.1398108e-05
3,002	A Framework for Implementing Hypothetical Queries	1997	SIGMOD	7.8667842e-05
5,458	Using Partial Evaluation in Distributed Query Evaluation	2006	VLDB	6.2115011e-05
5,936	Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views	2006	SIGMOD	6.0353909e-05

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