A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler

Summary: SQL:1999 code generator for Pathfinder XQuery compiler enables true relational XQuery processing on any SQL:1999 RDBMS. Pathfinder translates XQuery into DAG-shaped relational algebra, then emits SQL statements or views implementing XQuery semantics—bridging relational and XML processing. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4025
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.3251649e-05
Overall Rank: 9,090 | 37.64%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247642

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Authors

1. Torsten Grust (Technical University of Munich)
2. Manuel Mayr (Technical University of Munich)
3. Jan Rittinger (Technical University of Munich)
4. Sherif Sakr (University of Konstanz)
5. Jens Teubner (Technical University of Munich)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{grust_sigmod07,
        title = {{A SQL:1999 Code Generator for the Pathfinder XQuery Compiler}},
        author = {Grust, Torsten and Mayr, Manuel and Rittinger, Jan and Sakr, Sherif and Teubner, Jens},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247642},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247642},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,847	Avalanche-Safe LINQ Compilation	2010	VLDB	6.4805473e-05
7,486	Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect	2007	SIGMOD	5.6073128e-05
12,606	Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs	2008	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
79	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00036555628
1,460	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010710674
1,508	Sorting And Indexing With Partitioned B-Trees	2003	CIDR	0.00010540965
2,720	XQuery on SQL Hosts	2004	VLDB	8.2086071e-05
4,288	Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database	2005	VLDB	6.7801502e-05
7,486	Why Off-the-Shelf RDBMSs are Better at XPath Than You Might Expect	2007	SIGMOD	5.6073128e-05

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