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Many XML query languages use regular path expressions to query XML data. Retrieval of XML data is like retrieval of relational databases, but the difference is that relational data are stored in 2-D flat tables whereas XML data are organized in a tree-like structure. Hence, fast tree traversal is a key to XML query processing. This is commonly accomplished using indexing. In this paper, we present a design and implementation of an efficient and quick solution to indexing XML data. Our approach is based on a numbering scheme that encodes the XML elements for not only indexing to the elements but also for quick determination of the ancestor-descendant relationship between elements in the tree hierarchy. This approach also allows efficiently inserting and updating the index system, which is an improvement over several existing XML tree node numbering methods.
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Hu, G., Tang, C. (2004). Indexing XML Data for Path Expression Queries. In: Ramamoorthy, C.V., Lee, R., Lee, K.W. (eds) Software Engineering Research and Applications. SERA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3026. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24675-6_26
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