Incorporating XSL Processing Into Database Engines

Summary: Translates XSL stylesheets into algebraic expressions for in-DB evaluation. Optimizes template-rule selection and the resulting algebra; demonstrates undecidability results, highlighting the complexity of integrating XSL processing inside database engines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 9028
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: 5.8789927e-05
Overall Rank: 6,438 | 55.84%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50018-4

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Guido Moerkotte (University of Mannheim)

BibTeX Citation

@article{moerkotte_vldb02,
        title = {{Incorporating XSL Processing Into Database Engines}},
        author = {Moerkotte, Guido},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50018-4},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50018-4},
        year = {2002}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,496	Composing XSL Transformations with XML Publishing Views	2003	SIGMOD	5.6040533e-05
12,696	Efficient XSLT Processing in Relational Database System	2006	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
137	Relational Databases for Querying XML Documents: Limitations and Opportunities	1999	VLDB	0.00029877792
362	Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System	2002	SIGMOD	0.00020125068
470	Query Optimization for XML	1999	VLDB	0.00017965707
535	Efficiently Publishing Relational Data as XML Documents	2000	VLDB	0.00017003136

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