An analysis of an efficient data structure for evaluating flexible constraints on XML documents

  • Authors:
  • Stefania Marrara;Emanuele Panzeri;Gabriella Pasi

  • Affiliations:
  • Università degli Studi di Milano - DTI, Crema, CR, Italy;Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, MI, Italy;Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Milano, MI, Italy

  • Venue:
  • FQAS'11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this work we describe and evaluate an efficient data structure developed to deal with an extension of the XPath language that allows the specification of flexible constraints on both the textual content and the document structure of XML documents. Our approach is based on an inverted file representation of XML documents where both structure and content are taken into account. The proposed approach is described, as well as its implementation, by particularly addressing the problem of offering an efficient evaluation of structure-based flexible constraints.