Implementing XQuery 1.0: The Galax Experience

Summary: Galax is a lightweight, portable, open-source XQuery 1.0 implementation supporting XPath 2.0, XML Schema, and static typing. Its open compiler enables query rewriting and optimization experiments, including execution over gigabyte-scale XML without preindexing. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9249
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 6.1927103e-05
Overall Rank: 5,505 | 62.24%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50109-9

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mary Fernández (AT&T)
2. Jérôme Siméon (AT&T)
3. Byron Choi (University of Pennsylvania)
4. Amélie Marian (Columbia University)
5. Gargi Sur (University of Florida)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fernandez_vldb03,
        title = {{Implementing XQuery 1.0: The Galax Experience}},
        author = {Fernández, Mary and Siméon, Jérôme and Choi, Byron and Marian, Amélie and Sur, Gargi},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50109-9},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50109-9},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,460	MonetDB/XQuery: A Fast XQuery Processor Powered by a Relational Engine	2006	SIGMOD	0.00010710674
2,720	XQuery on SQL Hosts	2004	VLDB	8.2086071e-05
4,576	Efficient Evaluation of XQuery over Streaming Data	2005	VLDB	6.6216442e-05
5,646	Native XQuery Processing in Oracle XMLDB	2005	SIGMOD	6.1360174e-05
7,700	Yoo-Hoo! Building a Presence Service with XQuery and WSDL	2004	SIGMOD	5.5650239e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,155	Projecting XML Documents	2003	VLDB	0.00011933524

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