On Reasoning about Structural Equality in XML: A Description Logic Approach

  • Authors:
  • David Toman;Grant E. Weddell

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDT '03 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Database Theory
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We define a boolean complete description logic dialect called DLFDreg that can be used to reason about structural equality in semistructured ordered data in the presence of document type definitions. This application depends on the novel ability of DLFDreg to express functional dependencies over sets of possibly infinite feature paths defined by regular languages. We also present a decision procedure for the associated logical implication problem. The procedure underlies a mapping of such problems to satisfiability problems of DatalognS驴, 卢 and in turn to the Ackermann case of the decision problem.