17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'06)
A Data Model and an Algebra for Querying XML Documents
Krakow, Poland
September 04-September 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2641-1
In this paper we address the important issue of establishing a formal background for the management of semistructured data. We define a data model and propose an algebra for XML. The algebra, clearly inspired by relational algebra, is quite intuitive; nevertheless it is able to represent most of XQuery expressions.