Relational-Style XML Query

Summary: Relational data embedded in XML is queried with a relational XML query that automatically infers multiple XML structures from the data, avoiding explicit path expressions. Functional dependencies prune search space, enabling schema-agnostic, scalable querying across diverse XML data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4058
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,555 | 13.87%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376650

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Authors

1. Taro L. Saito (Japan Science and Technology Agency; University of Tokyo)
2. Shinichi Morishita (Japan Science and Technology Agency; University of Tokyo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{saito_sigmod08,
        title = {{Relational-Style XML Query}},
        author = {Saito, Taro L. and Morishita, Shinichi},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376650},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376650},
        year = {2008}
}

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
77	XRANK: Ranked Keyword Search over XML Documents	2003	SIGMOD	0.00037048607
79	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00036555628
341	Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions	2001	VLDB	0.00020704572
496	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.0001750537
795	Efficient Keyword Search for Smallest LCAs in XML Databases	2005	SIGMOD	0.00013939786
1,671	A Normal Form for XML Documents	2002	PODS	0.00010043595
2,531	DogmatiX Tracks down Duplicates in XML	2005	SIGMOD	8.4574631e-05
2,616	FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML	2004	SIGMOD	8.339188e-05
4,822	Colorful XML: One Hierarchy Isn't Enough	2004	SIGMOD	6.4919484e-05
6,771	Efficient Discovery of XML Data Redundancies	2006	VLDB	5.7783105e-05

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