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On the minimization of Xpath queries

Summary: Extends XPath minimization to a general fragment including wildcard and shows NP-hardness of minimizing XPath queries. Proposes an algorithm to compute minimum XPath expressions and identifies a tractable case with a polynomial-time solution. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
8971
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
7.6011919e-05
Overall Rank
3,084 | 78.55%
DOI
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2,479 Efficient Query Reformulation in Peer Data Management Systems 2004 SIGMOD 8.6909119e-05
2,704 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.2720556e-05
4,568 Rewriting XPath Queries Using Materialized Views 2005 VLDB 6.0784118e-05
5,611 Query Caching and View Selection for XML Databases 2005 VLDB 5.4113701e-05
5,948 Minimization of Tree Pattern Queries with Constraints 2008 SIGMOD 5.2602218e-05
6,300 Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views 2006 SIGMOD 5.1223169e-05
6,681 Query Efficiency in Probabilistic XML Models 2008 SIGMOD 4.9643102e-05
9,534 Answering Tree Pattern Queries Using Views 2006 VLDB 4.3268303e-05
11,827 Minimization of Tree Pattern Queries 2016 PODS 4.1945683e-05
12,606 The NEXT Framework for Logical XQuery Optimization 2004 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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