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Searching Multi-Hierarchical XML Documents: The Case of Fragmentation
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) (2005)
  • Alex Dekhtyar, University of Kentucky
  • Ionut E. Iacob, Georgia Southern University
  • Srikanth Methuku, University of Kentucky
Abstract
To properly encode properties of textual documents using XML, multiple markup hierarchies must be used, often leading to conflicting markup in encodings. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines [1] recognize this problem and suggest a number of ways to incorporate multiple hierarchies in a single well-formed XML document. In this paper, we present a framework for processing XPath queries over multi-hierarchical XML documents represented using fragmentation, one of the TEI-suggested techniques. We define the semantics of XPath over DOM trees of fragmented XML, extend the path expression language to cover overlap in markup, and describe FragXPath, our implementation of the proposed XPath semantics over fragmented markup.
Keywords
  • Multihierarchical XML documents,
  • Fragmentation,
  • Searching
Disciplines
Publication Date
August 22, 2005
Editor
Kim Viborg Andersen, John Debenham, and Roland Wagner
Publisher
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
ISBN
978-3-540-31729-6
DOI
10.1007/11546924_56
Citation Information
Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut E. Iacob and Srikanth Methuku. "Searching Multi-Hierarchical XML Documents: The Case of Fragmentation" Copenhagen, DenmarkProceedings of the 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA) Vol. 3588 (2005) p. 576 - 585
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ionut_iacob/18/