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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.99
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-38512
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2012/3851/
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Bárány, Vince ; Bojanczyk, Mikolaj ; Figueira, Diego ; Parys, Pawel

Decidable classes of documents for XPath

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Abstract

We study the satisfiability problem for XPath over XML documents of bounded depth. We define two parameters, called match width and braid width, that assign a number to any class of documents. We show that for all k, satisfiability for XPath restricted to bounded depth documents with match width at most k is decidable; and that XPath is undecidable on any class of documents with unbounded braid width. We conjecture that these two parameters are equivalent, in the sense that a class of documents has bounded match width iff it has bounded braid width.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{brny_et_al:LIPIcs:2012:3851,
  author =	{Vince B{\'a}r{\'a}ny and Mikolaj Bojanczyk and Diego  Figueira and Pawel Parys},
  title =	{{Decidable classes of documents for XPath}},
  booktitle =	{IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2012) },
  pages =	{99--111},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-47-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{18},
  editor =	{Deepak D'Souza and Telikepalli Kavitha and Jaikumar Radhakrishnan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2012/3851},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-38512},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2012.99},
  annote =	{Keywords: XPath, XML, class automata, data trees, data words, satisfiability}
}

Keywords: XPath, XML, class automata, data trees, data words, satisfiability
Collection: IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2012)
Issue Date: 2012
Date of publication: 14.12.2012

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