VXMLR: A Visual XML-Relational Database System

Summary: Visual interface for crafting path-expression queries over XML stored in an RDBMS. Statistics and a dedicated path directory rewrite path-expression queries into efficient SQL with fewer joins. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9009
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2001
Pagerank: 5.265685e-05
Overall Rank: 9,453 | 35.15%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Aoying Zhou (Fudan University)
2. Hongjun Lu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3. Shihui Zheng (Fudan University)
4. Yuqi Liang (Fudan University)
5. Long Zhang (Fudan University)
6. Wenyun Ji (Fudan University)
7. Zengping Tian (Fudan University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{zhou_vldb01,
        title = {{VXMLR: A Visual XML-Relational Database System}},
        author = {Zhou, Aoying and Lu, Hongjun and Zheng, Shihui and Liang, Yuqi and Zhang, Long and Ji, Wenyun and Tian, Zengping},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '01},
        year = {2001}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
8,021	CXHist: An On-line Classification-Based Histogram for XML String Selectivity Estimation	2005	VLDB	5.5055705e-05

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