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XPath+: A Tool for Linked XML Documents Navigation

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Database and XML Technologies (XSym 2009)

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Links are basic elements in the World Wide Web. The use of links in XML documents goes further than in the WWW, since XML links express the semantics of a relationship. XLink has been proposed by the W3C as a standard for representing links in XML. However, most of the current query languages found in literature, like XPath, do not support navigation over XML links, making its adoption difficult by software developers. In this paper, an extension for the XPath query language is proposed, namely XPath+, which provides a means of navigating through both internal and external links. Particularly, both the syntax and semantics of XPath+ are given, along with some results derived from the implementation of our work.

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  1. Center for Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, P.O. BOX 7851

    Paulo Caetano da Silva & Valéria Cesário Times

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  1. Paulo Caetano da Silva
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  1. LIRMM - UMR 5506 CNRS / Université Montpellier 2, 161 Rue Ada, P.O. Box, F-34392, Montpellier Cedex 5

    Zohra Bellahsène

  2. Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Ela Hunt

  3. Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, P.O. Box, 98052, Redmond, WA, USA

    Michael Rys

  4. Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Rainer Unland

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Caetano da Silva, P., Cesário Times, V. (2009). XPath+: A Tool for Linked XML Documents Navigation. In: Bellahsène, Z., Hunt, E., Rys, M., Unland, R. (eds) Database and XML Technologies. XSym 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5679. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03555-5_6

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