Simplifying XML Schema: Effortless Handling of Nondeterministic Regular Expressions
Summary: Automates transforming nondeterministic XML Schema regular expressions into equivalent deterministic ones or practical approximations, relieving the UPA burden. Delivers concise XSDs and can plug into model-management tools to export to XML Schema. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Geert Jan Bex (Hasselt University; Transnational University of Limburg)
- 2. Wouter Gelade (Hasselt University; Transnational University of Limburg)
- 3. Wim Martens (Technical University of Dortmund)
- 4. Frank Neven (Hasselt University; Transnational University of Limburg)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{bex_sigmod09,
title = {{Simplifying XML Schema: Effortless Handling of Nondeterministic Regular Expressions}},
author = {Bex, Geert Jan and Gelade, Wouter and Martens, Wim and Neven, Frank},
series = {{SIGMOD} '09},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/1559845.1559922},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1559845.1559922},
year = {2009}
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| 8,647 | Discovering XSD Keys from XML Data | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.2952465e-05 |
| 12,634 | Developing and Analyzing XSDs through BonXai | 2012 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,702 | Schema Design for XML Repositories: Complexity and Tractability | 2010 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 12,703 | Simplifying XML Schema: Single-Type Approximations of Regular Tree Languages | 2010 | PODS | 4.9793485e-05 |
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| 190 | Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems | 2003 | CIDR | 0.00025768763 |
| 1,189 | Answering XML Queries over Heterogeneous Data Sources | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00011592351 |
| 1,960 | StatiX: Making XML Count | 2002 | SIGMOD | 9.3125715e-05 |
| 1,976 | XPath Satisfiability in the Presence of DTDs | 2005 | PODS | 9.2797174e-05 |
| 2,797 | Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data | 2007 | VLDB | 7.9969811e-05 |
| 3,242 | Inference of Concise DTDs from XML Data | 2006 | VLDB | 7.4991762e-05 |
| 3,585 | Schema-based Scheduling of Event Processors and Buffer Minimization for Queries on Structured Data Streams | 2004 | VLDB | 7.189318e-05 |
| 5,147 | ShreX: Managing XML Documents in Relational Databases | 2004 | VLDB | 6.255814e-05 |
| 12,855 | SchemaScope: a System for Inferring and Cleaning XML Schemas | 2008 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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