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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
8972
Venue
VLDB
Year
2003
Pagerank
7.5938563e-05
Overall Rank
3,089 | 78.54%
DOI
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2,480 Efficient Query Reformulation in Peer Data Management Systems 2004 SIGMOD 8.682497e-05
2,707 FleXPath: Flexible Structure and Full-Text Querying for XML 2004 SIGMOD 8.265158e-05
4,568 Rewriting XPath Queries Using Materialized Views 2005 VLDB 6.0725918e-05
5,621 Query Caching and View Selection for XML Databases 2005 VLDB 5.4061733e-05
5,950 Minimization of Tree Pattern Queries with Constraints 2008 SIGMOD 5.2551296e-05
6,300 Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views 2006 SIGMOD 5.1174095e-05
6,682 Query Efficiency in Probabilistic XML Models 2008 SIGMOD 4.9596732e-05
9,535 Answering Tree Pattern Queries Using Views 2006 VLDB 4.3226836e-05
11,835 Minimization of Tree Pattern Queries 2016 PODS 4.1905499e-05
12,615 The NEXT Framework for Logical XQuery Optimization 2004 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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