On the Termination Problem for Declarative XML Message Processing

  • Authors:
  • Tadeusz Litak;Sven Helmer

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK WC1E 7HX;School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK WC1E 7HX

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '09 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We define a formal syntax and semantics for the Rule Definition Language (RDL) of DemaqLite, which is a fragment of the declarative XML message processing system Demaq. Based on this definition, we prove that the termination problem for any practically useful sublanguage of DemaqLiteRDL is undecidable, as any such language can emulate a Single Register Machine--a Turing-complete model of computation proposed by Shepherdson and Sturgis.