XQuery in the Browser

Summary: Proposes XQuery as a client-side language to reduce browser programming complexity; includes a Zorba-based IE extension for in-browser XQuery execution (Firefox extension coming). Demonstrates compact client-side XQuery apps and their capabilities with very little code. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4157
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 5.912481e-05
Overall Rank: 6,326 | 56.60%
DOI: 10.1145/1376616.1376769

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Authors

1. Ghislain Fourny (ETH Zurich)
2. Donald Kossmann (ETH Zurich)
3. Tim Kraska (ETH Zurich)
4. Markus Pilman (ETH Zurich)
5. Daniela Florescu (Oracle)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fourny_sigmod08,
        title = {{XQuery in the Browser}},
        author = {Fourny, Ghislain and Kossmann, Donald and Kraska, Tim and Pilman, Markus and Florescu, Daniela},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '08},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1376616.1376769},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376616.1376769},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,607	XQuery Reloaded	2009	VLDB	5.5845947e-05
8,219	Ajax-based Report Pages as Incrementally Rendered Views	2010	SIGMOD	5.4642154e-05
12,064	Graph databases in the browser: using LevelGraph to explore New Delhi	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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