On the Path to Efficient XML Queries
Summary: Identifies XQuery and SQL/XML constructs that impede expected semantics and XML-index exploitation. Distills early-adopter pitfalls into concrete rewrites and guidelines, with implications for language standards and future XML query APIs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Andrey Balmin (IBM)
- 2. Kevin S. Beyer (IBM)
- 3. Fatma Özcan (IBM)
- 4. Matthias Nicola (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{balmin_vldb06,
title = {{On the Path to Efficient XML Queries}},
author = {Balmin, Andrey and Beyer, Kevin S. and Özcan, Fatma and Nicola, Matthias},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '06},
pages = {1117--1128},
year = {2006}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 12,566 | An XML Index Advisor for DB2 | 2008 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,744 | System RX: One Part Relational, One Part XML | 2005 | SIGMOD | 9.868841e-05 |
| 2,658 | A Framework for Using Materialized XPath Views in XML Query Processing | 2004 | VLDB | 8.287535e-05 |
| 3,408 | XML and Relational Database Management Systems: Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005 | 2005 | SIGMOD | 7.4370792e-05 |
| 4,288 | Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database | 2005 | VLDB | 6.7801502e-05 |
| 7,039 | Towards An Enterprise XML Architecture | 2005 | SIGMOD | 5.7196743e-05 |
| 7,529 | Managing Structure in Bits & Pieces: The Killer Use Case for XML | 2005 | SIGMOD | 5.6029996e-05 |
| 13,858 | DB2/XML: Designing for Evolution | 2005 | SIGMOD | - |
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