Efficient Processing of Expressive Node-Selecting Queries on XML Data in Secondary Storage: A Tree Automata-based Approach

Summary: Tree-automata-based engine for expressive XML node-selecting queries on secondary storage; two linear passes, memory independent of data. O(m+n) time; m depends on the query; bounded-memory queries are exactly captured; each node is visited twice (optimal); experiments validate. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8979
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 8.0059865e-05
Overall Rank: 2,855 | 80.14%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Christoph Koch

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8,241	Machine Models and Lower Bounds for Query Processing	2007	PODS	4.5519176e-05
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274	Regular Path Queries with Constraints	1997	PODS	0.00029390022
713	Efficient Algorithms for Processing XPath Queries	2002	VLDB	0.00017731096
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