What do those weird XML types want, anyway?

Summary: Examines XML as a hybrid of structured database data and unstructured text, where typing, ordering, and aggregation meet semantic markup and recursive partitions. Highlights the resulting conceptual and query-management challenges of semi-structured information. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8806
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1999
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Overall Rank: 14,150 | 2.92%
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Authors

1. Steven J. DeRose (Brown University; Inso Corporation)

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@article{derose_vldb99,
        title = {{What do those weird XML types want, anyway?}},
        author = {DeRose, Steven J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '99},
        pages = {721},
        year = {1999}
}

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