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Handling Interlinked XML Instances on the Web

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Abstract

XML instances are not necessarily self-contained but may have links to remote XML data residing on other servers. Links between (autonomous) XML instances can be expressed by the XLink language; although, querying such interlinked sources is not yet actually supported.

We describe a model of such linked XML instances where the links are not seen as explicit links (where the users must be aware of the links and traverse them explicitly in their queries), but where the links define views that combine into a logical, transparent (XML) model that then can be queried by XPath/XQuery. We motivate the underlying modeling and give a concise and declarative specification as an XML-to-XML mapping. We also describe the implementation of the model as an extension of the eXist [exi] XML database system and point out some perspectives and combinations with related research aspects.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Göttingen, Germany

    Erik Behrends, Oliver Fritzen & Wolfgang May

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  1. University of Athens, Greece

    Yannis Ioannidis

  2. University of Konstanz, P.O.Box D188, 78457, Konstanz, Germany

    Marc H. Scholl

  3. Sustainable Content Logistics Centre, Hamburg, Germany

    Joachim W. Schmidt

  4. Chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748, Garching b. München,  

    Florian Matthes

  5. Department of Informatics, University of Athens Panepistimiopolis, 15771, Athens, Greece

    Mike Hatzopoulos

  6. IPD, Universität Karlsruhe, Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe,  

    Klemens Boehm

  7. TU München, D-85748, Garching, Germany

    Alfons Kemper

  8. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Torsten Grust

  9. Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München,  

    Christian Boehm

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Behrends, E., Fritzen, O., May, W. (2006). Handling Interlinked XML Instances on the Web. In: Ioannidis, Y., et al. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2006. EDBT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11687238_47

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