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Towards More Precise Typing Rules for Xcerpt

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In previous papers we presented a type system for a substantial fragment of the Web query language Xcerpt. It is a descriptive type system: the typing of a program is an approximation of its semantics. The type system was expressed by means of rules, which could be seen as a comprehensible abstraction of a typing algorithm. That system treats some query terms in a rather simplistic way. As a result the approximations produced for them are rather imprecise. In this paper we provide an improved type system, producing more precise results.

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Drabent, W. (2006). Towards More Precise Typing Rules for Xcerpt . In: Alferes, J.J., Bailey, J., May, W., Schwertel, U. (eds) Principles and Practice of Semantic Web Reasoning. PPSWR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4187. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11853107_9

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