XQuery: A Query Language for XML

Summary: Tutorial-style overview of XQuery, the XML query language under W3C development, detailing its syntax and semantics; notes reference implementations and published drafts. Emphasizes the design principles shaping XQuery and its potential impact on XML data management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: ha6016915ed2ac8f2
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 0.0001694914
Overall Rank: 516 | 96.54%
DOI: 10.1145/872757.872877

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Don Chamberlin (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chamberlin_sigmod03,
        title = {{XQuery: A Query Language for XML}},
        author = {Chamberlin, Don},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '03},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/872757.872877},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/872757.872877},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 22 of 22 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
86	XMark: A Benchmark for XML Data Management	2002	VLDB	0.00035793969
374	Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System	2002	SIGMOD	0.00019698564
505	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.00017153776
824	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013641217
906	Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013164767
919	Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications	2001	VLDB	0.00013077728
1,024	D(K)-Index: An Adaptive Structural Summary for Graph-Structured Data	2003	SIGMOD	0.00012426975
1,235	A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding	2003	SIGMOD	0.00011400492
1,268	Querying XML Views of Relational Data	2001	VLDB	0.00011263863
1,353	MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage	2003	VLDB	0.00010925367
1,902	ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures	2003	SIGMOD	9.3999798e-05
2,617	Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto	2001	VLDB	8.2214712e-05
2,916	F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale	2018	VLDB	7.8581972e-05
5,937	Integrating Information for On Demand Computing	2003	VLDB	5.9383591e-05
5,971	Efficient Mining of XML Query Patterns for Caching	2003	VLDB	5.928821e-05
6,060	Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views	2006	SIGMOD	5.8973683e-05
6,632	Content Integration for E-Business	2001	SIGMOD	5.725476e-05
8,118	The Nimble Integration Engine	2001	SIGMOD	5.3917406e-05
9,686	FIX: Feature-based Indexing Technique for XML Documents	2006	VLDB	5.1406509e-05
12,829	XPEDIA: XML Processing for Data Integration	2009	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,017	User Profile Management in Converged Networks (Episode II): "Share your data, Keep your secrets"	2005	CIDR	4.9769913e-05
13,095	The NEXT Framework for Logical XQuery Optimization	2004	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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

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