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: 0.00016897042
Overall Rank: 521 | 96.51%
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	0.0003567995
377	Storing and Querying Ordered XML Using a Relational Database System	2002	SIGMOD	0.00019634591
509	Schema-Free XQuery	2004	VLDB	0.00017102298
826	Data Integration: The Teenage Years	2006	VLDB	0.00013599086
909	Constraint-Based XML Query Rewriting for Data Integration	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013122165
919	Estimating the Selectivity of XML Path Expressions for Internet Scale Applications	2001	VLDB	0.00013042589
1,027	D(K)-Index: An Adaptive Structural Summary for Graph-Structured Data	2003	SIGMOD	0.00012391703
1,243	A Comprehensive XQuery to SQL Translation using Dynamic Interval Encoding	2003	SIGMOD	0.00011363056
1,272	Querying XML Views of Relational Data	2001	VLDB	0.00011226794
1,361	MARS: A System for Publishing XML from Mixed and Redundant Storage	2003	VLDB	0.00010889401
1,912	ViST: A Dynamic Index Method for Querying XML Data by Tree Structures	2003	SIGMOD	9.3690697e-05
2,624	Visual Web Information Extraction with Lixto	2001	VLDB	8.1951041e-05
2,831	F1 Query: Declarative Querying at Scale	2018	VLDB	7.945337e-05
5,949	Integrating Information for On Demand Computing	2003	VLDB	5.9187435e-05
5,985	Efficient Mining of XML Query Patterns for Caching	2003	VLDB	5.9092174e-05
6,074	Rewriting Nested XML Queries Using Nested Views	2006	SIGMOD	5.877868e-05
6,642	Content Integration for E-Business	2001	SIGMOD	5.7068892e-05
8,136	The Nimble Integration Engine	2001	SIGMOD	5.3739121e-05
9,715	FIX: Feature-based Indexing Technique for XML Documents	2006	VLDB	5.1236529e-05
12,872	XPEDIA: XML Processing for Data Integration	2009	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,059	User Profile Management in Converged Networks (Episode II): "Share your data, Keep your secrets"	2005	CIDR	4.9605343e-05
13,136	The NEXT Framework for Logical XQuery Optimization	2004	VLDB	4.9605343e-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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