Techniques for the evaluation of XML queries: a survey

摘要

As XML has become an emerging standard for information exchange on the World Wide Web it has gained great attention among database communities with respect to extraction of information from XML, which is considered as a database model. XML queries enable users to issue many kinds of complex queries using regular path expressions. However, they usually require large search space during query processing. So, the problem of XML query processing has received significant attention. This paper surveys the state of the art on the problem of XML query evaluation. We consider the problem in three dimensions: XML instance storage, XML query languages and XML views, and XML query language processing. We describe the problem definition, algorithms proposed to solve it and the relevant research issues.