From structured documents to novel query facilities

24 May 1994

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGMOD Record

Vol. 23 (2) , 313-324
https://doi.org/10.1145/191843.191901

Abstract

Structured documents (e.g., SGML) can benefit a lot from database support and more specifically from object-oriented database (OODB) management systems. This paper describes a natural mapping from SGML documents into OODB's and a formal extension of two OODB query languages (one SQL-like and the other calculus) in order to deal with SGML document retrieval. Although motivated by structured documents, the extensions of query languages that we present are general and useful for a variety of other OODB applications. A key element is the introduction of paths as first class citizens. The new features allow to query data (and to some extent schema) without exact knowledge of the schema in a simple and homogeneous fashion.

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