Digital Symposium Collection 2000

What Do Those Weird XML Types Want, Anyway? Steven J. DeRose   View Paper (PDF)     View Slides (HTML)   Return to Keynote Address Abstract XML tries to bring to natural language documents ("texts" for short), some of what databases have had for decades: explicit structure whose properties can be known; independence of data and structure from reporting (which we foreigners call "formatting"); various kinds of isolation; and so on. But the data buried in those XML elements is weird stuff: deep hierarchies, arbitrary and unpredictable orderings and repetitions, a painful number of atomic types, and enough aggregates to make one's head hurt. References Note: References link to DBLP on the Web. [Abiteboul et al. 1997] Serge Abiteboul , Sophie Cluet , Vassilis Christophides , Tova Milo , Guido Moerkotte , Jérôme Siméon : Querying Documents in Object Databases. Int. J. on Digital Libraries 1(1) : 5-19(1997) [Agosti and Smeaton 1996] ... [André et al. 1989] ... [Bishop 1997] ... [Coombs et al. 1987] James H. Coombs , Allen H. Renear , Steven J. DeRose : Markup Systems and the Future of Scholary Text Processing. CACM 30(11) : 933-947(1987) [Gibson et al. 1998] David Gibson , Jon M. Kleinberg , Prabhakar Raghavan : Inferring Web Communities from Link Topology. Hypertext 1998 : 225-234 [Hall et al. 1996] ... [Hitchcock et al. 1997] Steve Hitchcock , Les Carr , S. Harris , Jessie Hey , Wendy Hall : Citation Linking: Improving Access to Online Journals. ACM DL 1997 : 115-122 [Myaeng et al. 1998] Sung-Hyon Myaeng , Don-Hyun Jang , Mun-Seok Kim , Zong-Cheol Zhoo : A Flexible Model for Retrieval of SGML Documents. SIGIR 1998 : 138-145 [Simons 1997] ... [Subramanian et al. 1995] Bharathi Subramanian , Theodore W. Leung , Scott L. Vandenberg , Stanley B. Zdonik : The AQUA Approach to Querying Lists and Trees in Object-Oriented Databases. ICDE 1995 : 80-89 [Tajima et al. 1998] Keishi Tajima , Yoshiaki Mizuuchi , Masatsugu Kitagawa , Katsumi Tanaka : Cut as a Querying Unit for WWW, Netnews, e-mail. Hypertext 1998 : 235-244 [Trigg 1988] Randall H. Trigg : Guided Tours and Tabletops: Tools for Communicating in a Hypertext Environment. TOIS 6(4) : 398-414(1988) [Zamir and Etzioni 1998] Oren Zamir , Oren Etzioni : Web Document Clustering: A Feasibility Demonstration. SIGIR 1998 : 46-54 BIBTEX @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/DeRose99,   author    = {Steven J. DeRose},    editor    = {Malcolm P. Atkinson and                 Maria E. Orlowska and                 Patrick Valduriez and                 Stanley B. Zdonik and                 Michael L. Brodie},    title     = {What Do Those Weird XML Types Want, Anyway?},    booktitle = {VLDB'99, Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Very                 Large Data Bases, September 7-10, 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland,                 UK},    publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},    year      = {1999},    isbn      = {1-55860-615-5},    pages     = {721-724},    crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/99},    bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } }, Copyright(C) 2000 ACM