Indexing XML Documents Using Tree Paths Automaton

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2017.10" target="_blank" >10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2017.10</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Indexing XML Documents Using Tree Paths Automaton

Original language description

An XML document can be viewed as a tree in a natural way. Processing tree data structures usually requires a pushdown automaton as a model of computation. Therefore, it is interesting that a finite automaton can be used to solve the XML index problem. In this paper, we attempt to support a significant fragment of XPath queries which may use any combination of child (i.e., /) and descendant-or-self (i.e., //) axis. A systematic approach to the construction of such XML index, which is a finite automaton called Tree Paths Automaton, is presented. Given an XML tree model T, the tree is first of all preprocessed by means of its linear fragments called string paths. Since only path queries are considered, the branching structure of the XML tree model can be omitted. For individual string paths, smaller Tree Paths Automata are built, and they are afterwards combined to form the index. The searching phase uses the index, reads an input query Q of size m, and computes the list of positions of all occurrences of Q in the tree T. The searching is performed in time O(m) and does not depend on the size of the XML document. Although the number of queries is clearly exponential in the number of nodes of the XML tree model, the size of the index seems to be, according to our experimental results, usually only about 2.5 times larger than the size of the original document.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

6th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies

ISBN

978-3-95977-056-9

ISSN

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e-ISSN

1868-8969

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

"10:1"-"10:14"

Publisher name

Dagstuhl Publishing,

Place of publication

Saarbrücken

Event location

Vila do Conde

Event date

Jun 26, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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