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Accelerating XPath Location Steps

Summary: Proposes an XML index for XPath evaluation across all axes (ancestor, following, preceding-sibling, descendant-or-self), unlike prior axis-limited work. Enables starting traversals from arbitrary context nodes for XQuery paths; relationally implementable and especially fast with R-tree support; evaluation shows promising results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
ha4f661e874fc1d8d
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2002
Pagerank
0.00013084437
Overall Rank
918 | 93.83%
DOI
10.1145/564691.564705

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Authors

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{grust_sigmod02,
        title = {{Accelerating XPath Location Steps}},
        author = {Grust, Torsten},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '02},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/564691.564705},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564691.564705},
        year = {2002}
}

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3,276 An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search 2005 VLDB 7.4678085e-05
3,814 Staircase Join: Teach a Relational DBMS to Watch its (Axis) Steps 2003 VLDB 7.0082358e-05
4,161 The Relational Data Borg is Learning 2020 VLDB 6.7700593e-05
5,255 Pathfinder: XQuery—The Relational Way 2005 VLDB 6.2079337e-05
5,334 Prefix Based Numbering Schemes for XML: Techniques, Applications and Performances 2008 VLDB 6.1750849e-05
5,709 BLAS : An Efficient XPath Processing System 2004 SIGMOD 6.0242536e-05
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12,896 Implementing Filesystems by Tree-aware DBMSs 2008 VLDB 4.9793485e-05
12,939 The TopX DB&IR Engine 2007 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
12,978 Meta-data Indexing for XPath Location Steps 2006 SIGMOD 4.9793485e-05
13,041 MIX: A Meta-data Indexing System for XML 2005 VLDB 4.9793485e-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
2 R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure For Spatial Searching 1984 SIGMOD 0.001992968
50 DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases 1997 VLDB 0.00043130126
166 On Supporting Containment Queries in Relational Database Management Systems 2001 SIGMOD 0.00027254612
206 Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems (Extended Abstract) 1995 VLDB 0.00024986675
351 Indexing and Querying XML Data for Regular Path Expressions 2001 VLDB 0.00020251513
441 A Fast Index for Semistructured Data 2001 VLDB 0.00018215078
1,128 Managing Intervals Efficiently in Object-Relational Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00011905274
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