An Extension of Data Automata that Captures XPath

  • Authors:
  • Mikolaj Bojanczyk;Slawomir Lasota

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • LICS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 25th Annual IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We define a new kind of automata recognizing properties of data words or data trees and prove that the automata capture all queries definable in Regular XPath. We show that the automata-theoretic approach may be applied to answer decidability and expressibility questions for XPath. Finally, we use the newly introduced automata as a common framework to classify existing automata on data words and trees, including data automata, register automata and alternating register automata.