The Expressivity of XPath with Transitive Closure*
Summary: Extend Core XPath with transitive closure and path equalities to define Regular XPath*, proven expressively complete for FO* (first-order logic with a binary transitive-closure operator). Consequences: closure under path intersection/complementation and characterizations of the *-positive fragment and mu-Regular XPath (least fixed points). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{cate_pods06,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '06},
title = {{The Expressivity of XPath with Transitive Closure*}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1142351.1142398},
doi = {10.1145/1142351.1142398},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Cate, Balder ten},
year = {2006}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 4,596 | The Complexity of Query Containment in Expressive Fragments of XPath 2.0 | 2007 | PODS | 6.5098871e-05 |
| 4,740 | High-Performance Complex Event Processing over XML Streams | 2012 | SIGMOD | 6.4435709e-05 |
| 6,265 | XML Transformation by Tree-Walking Transducers with Invisible Pebbles | 2007 | PODS | 5.8305555e-05 |
| 6,571 | XPath, Transitive Closure Logic, and Nested Tree Walking Automata | 2008 | PODS | 5.7457654e-05 |
| 7,548 | From Regular Expressions to Nested Words: Unifying Languages and Query Execution for Relational and XML Sequences | 2010 | VLDB | 5.4981314e-05 |
| 7,551 | TriAL for RDF: Adapting Graph Query Languages for RDF Data | 2013 | PODS | 5.4980866e-05 |
| 9,422 | Decidable XPath Fragments in the Real World | 2019 | PODS | 5.1798389e-05 |
| 12,781 | Satisfiability of Downward XPath with Data Equality Tests | 2009 | PODS | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 | A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.00030320165 |
| 409 | Containment and Equivalence for an XPath Fragment [Extended Abstract] | 2002 | PODS | 0.00018868173 |
| 1,599 | Conjunctive Queries over Trees | 2004 | PODS | 0.00010117703 |
| 2,177 | The Complexity of XPath Query Evaluation | 2003 | PODS | 8.9153711e-05 |
| 3,030 | Expressive and efficient pattern languages for tree-structured data (extended abstract) | 2000 | PODS | 7.7374426e-05 |
| 7,311 | Query Translation from XPath to SQL in the Presence of Recursive DTDs | 2005 | VLDB | 5.5562115e-05 |
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