XPath evaluation in linear time

  • Authors:
  • Mikolaj Bojańczyk;Pawel Parys

  • Affiliations:
  • Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland;Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the twenty-seventh ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We consider a fragment of XPath where attribute values can only be tested for equality. We show that for any fixed unary query in this fragment, the set of nodes that satisfy the query can be calculated in time linear in the document size.